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installation/guides/arm-devices: mention images use growpart now
images also aren't 2GB now (more like 700MB but 1G is close enough)
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### Pre-built images
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The pre-built images provided are prepared for 2GB SD cards. After [downloading
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and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) an image, it can
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be uncompressed with [unxz(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/unxz.1) and written to
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the relevant media with [cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1),
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The pre-built images provided are prepared for 1GB storage devices. After
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[downloading and verifying](../../index.md#downloading-installation-media) an
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image, it can be uncompressed with [unxz(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/unxz.1)
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and written to the relevant media with
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[cat(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cat.1),
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[pv(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/pv.1), or
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[dd(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/dd.1). For example, to flash it onto an SD
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card located at `/dev/mmcblk0`:
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# dd if=<image>.img of=/dev/mmcblk0 bs=4M status=progress
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After flashing, the root partition can optionally be expanded to fit the storage
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device with [cfdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cfdisk.8),
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On first boot, the root partition and filesystem will automatically expand to
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fill available space in the storage device using
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[growpart(1)](https://man.voidlinux.org/man1/growpart.1). This can be disabled
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by commenting out `ENABLE_ROOT_GROWPART=yes` in `/etc/default/growpart`.
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This can also be done manually after flashing with
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[cfdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/cfdisk.8),
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[fdisk(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/fdisk.8), or another partitioning tool, and
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the filesystem can be resized to fit the expanded partition with
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[resize2fs(8)](https://man.voidlinux.org/resize2fs.8).

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