Adding tools to PineTab without filling root partition

[brentashley]

Expanding the partition would be the quickest way. Or flash Arch. The emmc is 64g but the stock image is 16g.

It looks like this was "fixed" in the latest UBPorts update by creating the userdata partition to fill the space but leaving the root partition at its current size.  If I can expand into that partition rather than resizing the root partition, that would be my goal.

Not sure why the root partition is read-only and so small.  I'm assuming these were design decisions made with some reasoning behind them, so that makes me reticent to resize the partitions myself without understanding what I am breaking.  My preference would be to find out how to work within the parameters of the installation so I don't break compatibility with future updates.  I'd like to be able to share with others a way to make the current build extensible in a way that will work now and in the future.