Raspberry Pi 4 | 16GB sd card | Increase disk space

[Chatmandu]

My Raspberry Pi 4 is fitted with a 16GB micro sd card. I currently have 61%/65.5MB of free space. Do I need to think about increasing the partitions size?

• Which partition is this referring to?
• Is there any risk to increasing the partition size?
• Can this be done via the OpenWrt CLI or do I need to remove the card and use something like gparted?

[frollic]

Expanding the squashfs file system

Ok... finally figured this out. When you said use "the ext4 instead" I thought you meant the partition type rather than the image type. Utterly confused I gave up for a couple weeks. Now that I've flashed the sd card using the combined-ext4.img instead of the combined-squashfs.img, things have progressed. Used cfdisk to resize /dev/mmcblk0p2 partition, then struggled to resize /dev/root until I found this workaround to an apparent issue with the x86_64 image on 19.07.07. The steps at this li…

it can be done online via SSH, or with gparted on a 2nd computer.

if you need more space or not, really depend on what you've got installed,
but you can always enlarge it later, if you run out of space.

it's probably the 2nd partition you'd want to extend.