diff --git a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md index d7e82f13..afbb04b4 100644 --- a/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md +++ b/src/installation/guides/arm-devices/index.md @@ -27,10 +27,11 @@ thoroughly. ### Pre-built images -The pre-built images provided are prepared for 2GB SD cards. After [downloading -and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) an image, it can -be uncompressed with [unxz(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/unxz.1) and written to -the relevant media with [cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1), +The pre-built images provided are prepared for 1GB storage devices. After +[downloading and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) an +image, it can be uncompressed with [unxz(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/unxz.1) +and written to the relevant media with +[cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1), [pv(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/pv.1), or [dd(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/dd.1). For example, to flash it onto an SD card located at `/dev/mmcblk0`: @@ -40,8 +41,13 @@ $ unxz -k .img.xz # dd if=.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress ``` -After flashing, the root partition can optionally be expanded to fit the storage -device with [cfdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cfdisk.8), +On first boot, the root partition and filesystem will automatically expand to +fill available contiguous space in the storage device using +[growpart(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/man1/growpart.1). This can be disabled +by commenting out `ENABLE_ROOT_GROWPART=yes` in `/etc/default/growpart`. + +This can also be done manually after flashing with +[cfdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cfdisk.8), [fdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/fdisk.8), or another partitioning tool, and the filesystem can be resized to fit the expanded partition with [resize2fs(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/resize2fs.8).