.:Guide:. Resizing switch user partion (shrink/expand)

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NOT DONE YET!!!

I get countless Questions how to resize the user Partition on switch and here i want to make a guide how to shrink or expand the user Partition.

For shrinking you need:

• a unused micro sd card (32gb or bigger)
• hekate click
• and of course a windows PC with a card reader

Shrinking the user Partition:

1. open your sd card with your PC and delete all files in there
2. Download and unpack hekate to this sd card
3. unmount the sd card and push it to your switch
4. send hekate payload if you have an erista or let your switch with chip boot to hekate
5. go to Tools/Partion SD Card
6. move emuMMC (RAW) slider to 4-12 GIB
7. press next step=>start=>Power button to continue. a shrinked emummc partion is created
8. go back to Home=>emuMMC=>Create emuMMC=>SD Partition=>Part1
9. wait to proceed the emummc creation
10. go back to tools=>Backup eMMC
11. click SD emuMMC Raw Partition to ON
12. click SD emuMMC Raw GPP
13. wait until backup is finished
14. click close, then tools usb tools
15. mount your sd card to your pc
16. go to switch sd card folder: backup/uniqe_number/emummc
17. move all files in this folder to: backup/uniqe_number/restore
18. unmout your sd card from your pc
19. click close, then Restore eMMC
20. click eMMC RAW GPP and restore the shrinked dump to your emmc
21. wait until it's done and boot horizon to check if your Partition is shrinked

Enlarge your user Partition (bigger emmc or you want to revert these changes)

you need:

• Ubuntu live usb key (or a regular linux install with gdisk)
• hekate
• your prod.keys
• NxNand manager click

How to

1. boot up your ubuntu
2. open "disks" app
3. mount with hekate ums the eMMC Rae gpp with read only off
4. check disk app for mount point