[AIOT] How to Resize Tinker Board 2 OS Image/ Partition

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Product Tinker Board 2

Purpose:

This section demonstrates how create a minimized image from an existing storage. The image can be restored back to the storage (either eMMC or SD card) of the next board.

Note: This instruction is for Tinker Board/Tinker Board S/Tinker Board R2.0/Tinker Board S R2.0/Tinker Board 2/Tinker Board 2S

Environment:

Board: Tinker Board S
OS: Tinker_Board-Debian-Stretch-V2.1.11-20200310.img
microSD card: With another Debian installed
Note: It could be flashed an image thru Etcher or Win32DiskImager under Windows environment or dd under Linux.

Instruction:

1. Hardware setting: Connect Tinker Board S to PC via micro-USB

2. Power on Tinker Board S -- it should be recognized as 'UMS USB device' (in UMS mode)

3. To resize the partitions using tinker_resize shell script:
Download tinker_resize.sh and dump image from eMMC with dd command:

sudo dd bs=4M if=/dev/sdX of=/path/xxx.img

chmod +x tinker_resize.sh
sudo ./tinker_resize.sh xxx.img

The source code of tinker_resize.sh is originated from PiShrink: http://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink

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