How to Shrink RAW Disk Image to Actual Used Disk Space

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Note: This method is only for Linux Users

Step 1 (Clone or Download bash Script)

https://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink Make your pi images smaller!

ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads$
=> git clone https://github.com/Drewsif/PiShrink.git
Cloning into 'PiShrink'...
remote: Counting objects: 72, done.
remote: Total 72 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 72
Unpacking objects: 100% (72/72), done.
Checking connectivity... done.

Lets Check Syntax of Command pishrink.sh

ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads$
=> cd PiShrink/
ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads/PiShrink$
=> ls
LICENSE  pishrink.sh  README.md
ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads/PiShrink$
=> ./pishrink.sh 
Usage: ./pishrink.sh [-s] imagefile.img [newimagefile.img]

You need sudo permission to Use this Script

ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads/PiShrink$
=> ./pishrink.sh -s /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.img /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.min.img 
ERROR: You need to be running as root.

ssp@ssp-pc:~/Downloads/PiShrink$
=> sudo ./pishrink.sh -s /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.img /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.min.img 
Copying /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.img to /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.min.img...
Skipping autoexpanding process...
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
/dev/loop0: recovering journal
Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes
Pass 2: Checking directory structure
Pass 3: Checking directory connectivity
Pass 4: Checking reference counts
Pass 5: Checking group summary information
/dev/loop0: 152923/480496 files (0.1% non-contiguous), 1059531/1924096 blocks
resize2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
resize2fs 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
Resizing the filesystem on /dev/loop0 to 1066992 (4k) blocks.
Begin pass 2 (max = 98529)
Relocating blocks             XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Begin pass 3 (max = 59)
Scanning inode table          XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Begin pass 4 (max = 13514)
Updating inode references     XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
The filesystem on /dev/loop0 is now 1066992 blocks long.

Shrunk /media/ssp/Linux_DATA/raspberry-pi.min.img from 7.5G to 4.2G

Result

As you can see that Actual Size of Disk Image was about 8 GB and now it is about 4 GB, So this script is really useful When you want to save disk space and now you can easily restore raw disk image fatster (in short time). After that You can expand file system to use all available disk space.