Beagleboard / Raspberry Pi : Expanding File System Partition On A microSD This is a tutorial on how to expand the space used by the file system on an external micro SD card on your BeagleBone Black and Raspberry Pi. This tutorial will work with any of the Linux operating systems mentioned on Ubuntu On BeagleBoard Black or Debian On BeagleBoard Black that boot from a micro SD card With lots of trial and errors for expanding the file system size of a SD-Card using command line which crashed the file system. I found the alternative way of doing it. Requirements Ubuntu Operating System with Gparted Installed SD Card with Debian 8 for Beagle Bone Black Expanding File System Size using Gparted Insert the SD Card into the Ubuntu Running System Open Terminal and Install Gparted sudo apt-get install gparted On Terminal to open gparted, type gparted command Select the SD Card Right Click on the mount sd card, and click on Resize Resize by dragging to the end.