Expanding the file FAT32 partition?

[Kamshaft]

Is there any way of doing this? I know in raspian it does, but will it expand the right partition?

[bravebluerx]

For me this is what I did for my 64 Gb micro sd card:

I burned the 3.4 arpicade image to it with Etcher in windows -(arpicade image is sized for 8Gb micro sd cards). Then I manually copied all files from the fat32 partition of the sd card to a desktop folder. Then using "minitool partition wizard" for windows I then deleted that first fat32 partition, moved the ext linux partition to the end leaving 400mb of space available, and then resized/expanded the empty space as fat32 to fill the rest of the card. After doing that, I then copied the fat32 data back to the resized sd card. Make sure you also set both the fat32 partition and ext partitions to "primary" through minitool partition wizard or the pi wont boot the image correctly. Works great.

[Kamshaft]

I'll try that. Thanks!

[Bubbak]

I'm trying to expand my SD card the following the post, and for some reason every time I move the partition and resize the fat32, I get a blank screen when I plug it in. I'm not sure where I'm going wrong. I'm using a 32 gig card. I write the image with Escher. I test the card and it works. I open it up in Minitool partition wizard. Make the changes and copy back the original files to the new partition. Plug it in and just a blue screen.

[dee2eR]

are you sure the file system was resized as a fat32 file system?

Over a certain size some software seems to default to exfat rather than fat32, exfat will not work for the pi /boot as far as I know.

[Bubbak]

I'm pretty sure its fat32, but I'll double check it tonight..

[Bubbak]

Got it.. Apparently my format defaulted to NTFS.. Reformatted to Fat32 and its working..