06-08-2020, 10:33 PM
Rootfs in UT is read-only and it should stay that way to avoid issues with OTA updates.
But if you are determined and you know what you're doing and accept the risk, you can boot to recovery/jumpdrive by pressing Volum Up + Power while the phone is off.
You should see Yumi, UBports mascott. Once you are in this screen, you can connect your pinephone to a PC via USB. There you can use whatever tool you want to resize the rootfs. I used gparted but it isn't exactly easy because you have to resize userdata first to get more free space then move userdata so that the free space is adjacent to the rootfs and then you can resize the rootfs with that free space,
So far this setup has worked well even after I switched channel although of course all changes in your rootfs are gone after that. OTA update results may vary.
But if you are determined and you know what you're doing and accept the risk, you can boot to recovery/jumpdrive by pressing Volum Up + Power while the phone is off.
You should see Yumi, UBports mascott. Once you are in this screen, you can connect your pinephone to a PC via USB. There you can use whatever tool you want to resize the rootfs. I used gparted but it isn't exactly easy because you have to resize userdata first to get more free space then move userdata so that the free space is adjacent to the rootfs and then you can resize the rootfs with that free space,
So far this setup has worked well even after I switched channel although of course all changes in your rootfs are gone after that. OTA update results may vary.