The Easy Way to Expand Your File System on Raspberry Pi with Ubuntu MATE 16.04

Hey what's going on guys, it's your buddy ETA Prime back here again today. I'm here with the Raspberry Pi 3 running on Ubuntu MATE 16.04 and I want to show you a very easy and simple way to expand your file system. In the past, I've made a few tutorials on how to expand the file system while running on Ubutu MATE on the Raspberry Pi 2 or the Raspberry Pi 3, and that entailed going into the terminal and typing in a few lines of code to get the file system to expand. Well, those days are over.

Ubuntu MATE 16.04 added a feature that makes it super simple to do this now. It's not entirely clear if this was added in 16.04 or a little earlier, but I'm glad they did. So, let's take a look at how easy it is to expand your file system on Ubutu MATE. Here we are at the welcome screen, and you can resize the file system by clicking on the Raspberry Pi information button. It's that easy.

You just click on Raspberry Pi information, and then you'll see a button that says "Resize Filesystem". Clicking this will expand your file system, and when you're done, you can reboot your Raspberry Pi. Your file system should be extended or expanded by the time you come back online. If for any reason you have turned this welcome screen off, you can still re-enter it by clicking on System > Welcome, and then loading up the welcome screen again.

Let's take a look at my home folder right now. I'm just going to right-click on the properties of my home folder, and check how much free space I have. Right now, I only have 4 gigabytes free, but I'm using a 16 gigabyte SD card. This means that I don't have enough free space on my file system. But don't worry, we can fix this easily.

Let's go back to the Raspberry Pi information screen and click on "Resize Filesystem" again. We'll reboot our Raspberry Pi one time, and then when it comes back online, our file system should be extended or expanded by the time you come back online. Let me check my home folder properties again to see how much free space I have now.

Right-clicking on the properties of my home folder, I can see that before, I only had 4 gigabytes free. But now, I have 11.8 gigabytes of free space! My file system is expanded and I'm ready to use it to its full potential with Ubutu MATE. I'm super glad that they included this feature, as the older tutorials I made are now obsolete.

If you still want to do it the old way, where's there's no welcome screen or "Resize Filesystem" button, then you can still do it that way. But trust me, this is super easy and quick, and it's a lot easier than the old method. So when you open your welcome screen on your Raspberry Pi, go to Raspberry Pi information, and click on "Resize Filesystem", and don't forget to hit like and subscribe because we have a lot more coming! Thanks for watching guys, and thanks for helping me out by subscribing.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhey what's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I am here with the Raspberry Pi 3 running on blue to mate 16.04 and I want to show you a very easy and simple way to expand your file system in the past I've made a few tutorials on how to expand the file system while running on boon to mate on the Raspberry Pi 2 or the raspberry pi 3 and that entailed going into the terminal and typing in a few lines of code to get the file system to expand well those days are over um boon to mate 1604 added a feature now I'm not sure if it was added in 1604 or a little earlier but it's super simple to do at the welcome screen here you just click on raspberry pi information and you can resize the file system by clicking this button easy is that your reboot and your file system will be expanded if for any reason you have turned this welcome screen off here by clicking on this you can re-enter the welcome screen by going to system welcome it'll take a second to load up it'll load back up we'll just hit on raspberry pi information resize now so while we're waiting for that to load here's my home folder I'm just gonna right click properties and my free space is only 4 gigabytes right now but I'm using a 16 gigabyte SD card let's expand the filesystem Raspberry Pi information resize now we're going to reboot one time and our file system should be extended or expanded and we'll be ready to use them boon to mate now that you're rebooted just make sure that your file system did expand you can do that by right-clicking your home folder properties and before I only had four gigabytes free we now have eleven point eight gigabytes so my filesystem is expanded and I'm ready to use them boom to mate to its full potential now that's it guys I'm super glad that they included this like I said the older tutorials I made are now obsolete if you want to do it that way you still can but this is super easy and it's very very quick so when you open your welcome screen raspberry pi information and right here it'll tell you it'll have a button here resize filesystem thanks for watching guys this helped you add it all help me out and hit that like button and subscribe because they have a lot more coming and like always thanks for watchinghey what's going on guys is ETA prime back here again today I am here with the Raspberry Pi 3 running on blue to mate 16.04 and I want to show you a very easy and simple way to expand your file system in the past I've made a few tutorials on how to expand the file system while running on boon to mate on the Raspberry Pi 2 or the raspberry pi 3 and that entailed going into the terminal and typing in a few lines of code to get the file system to expand well those days are over um boon to mate 1604 added a feature now I'm not sure if it was added in 1604 or a little earlier but it's super simple to do at the welcome screen here you just click on raspberry pi information and you can resize the file system by clicking this button easy is that your reboot and your file system will be expanded if for any reason you have turned this welcome screen off here by clicking on this you can re-enter the welcome screen by going to system welcome it'll take a second to load up it'll load back up we'll just hit on raspberry pi information resize now so while we're waiting for that to load here's my home folder I'm just gonna right click properties and my free space is only 4 gigabytes right now but I'm using a 16 gigabyte SD card let's expand the filesystem Raspberry Pi information resize now we're going to reboot one time and our file system should be extended or expanded and we'll be ready to use them boon to mate now that you're rebooted just make sure that your file system did expand you can do that by right-clicking your home folder properties and before I only had four gigabytes free we now have eleven point eight gigabytes so my filesystem is expanded and I'm ready to use them boom to mate to its full potential now that's it guys I'm super glad that they included this like I said the older tutorials I made are now obsolete if you want to do it that way you still can but this is super easy and it's very very quick so when you open your welcome screen raspberry pi information and right here it'll tell you it'll have a button here resize filesystem thanks for watching guys this helped you add it all help me out and hit that like button and subscribe because they have a lot more coming and like always thanks for watching\n"