After installing Arch Linux on the Raspberry Pi you will mostly need to expand t

he disk size to the maximum available size used by SD cards.

And here we show how to do it:
1. After logging in you view the status of filesystem:
[root@alarmpi ~]# df
Filesystem
Size
/dev/root
1.7G
devtmpfs
83M
tmpfs
231M
tmpfs
231M
tmpfs
231M
tmpfs
231M
/dev/mmcblk0p1 90M

-h
Used
444M
0
0
236K
0
0
24M

Avail Use% Mounted on

1.2G 28% /
83M 0% /dev
231M 0% /dev/shm
231M 1% /run
231M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
231M 0% /tmp
67M 27% /boot

2. Using the command fdisk will edit the filesystem /dev/mmcblk0:

[root@alarmpi ~]# fdisk /dev/mmcblk0
Welcome to fdisk (util-linux 2.23.1).
Changes will remain in memory only, until you decide to write them.
Be careful before using the write command.
Command (m for help):
3. List the information and delete partition 2
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes, 15564800 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00057540
Device Boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1
/dev/mmcblk0p2
/dev/mmcblk0p5

Start
2048
186368
188416

End
186367
3667967
3667967

Blocks
92160
1740800
1739776

Id
c
5
83

System
W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Extended
Linux

Command (m for help): d

Partition number (1,2,5, default 5): 2
Partition 2 is deleted
Command (m for help):
4. Create a new extended partition a logical volume
Command (m for help): n
Partition type:
p primary (1 primary, 0 extended, 3 free)
e extended
Select (default p): e
Partition number (2-4, default 2): 2
First sector (186368-15564799, default 186368):
Using default value 186368
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (186368-15564799, default 15564799):
Using default value 15564799
Partition 2 of type Extended and of size 7.3 GiB is set

Command (m for help): n

Partition type:
p primary (1 primary, 1 extended, 2 free)
l logical (numbered from 5)
Select (default p): l
Adding logical partition 5
First sector (188416-15564799, default 188416):
Using default value 188416
Last sector, +sectors or +size{K,M,G} (188416-15564799, default 15564799):
Using default value 15564799
Partition 5 of type Linux and of size 7.3 GiB is set
Command (m for help):
5. !! Check whether top block starts in the same place as the original (start)
Command (m for help): p
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 7969 MB, 7969177600 bytes, 15564800 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk label type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x00057540
Device Boot
/dev/mmcblk0p1
/dev/mmcblk0p2
/dev/mmcblk0p5

Start
2048
186368
188416

End
186367
15564799
15564799

Blocks
92160
7689216
7688192

Id
c
5
83

System
W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Extended
Linux

Command (m for help):

6. If it starts again (in this case on 186368 p2 a 188416 p5) write changes and
reboot.
Command (m for help): w
The partition table has been altered!
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
WARNING: Re-reading the partition table failed with error 16: Device or resource
busy.
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at
the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or kpartx(8)
Syncing disks.
[root@alarmpi ~]# reboot
7. After booting the system we online enlarge root partitions
[root@alarmpi ~]# resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p5
resize2fs 1.42.8 (20-Jun-2013)
Filesystem at /dev/mmcblk0p5 is mounted on /; on-line resizing required
old_desc_blocks = 1, new_desc_blocks = 1
The filesystem on /dev/mmcblk0p5 is now 1922048 blocks long.
8. Check and it is done :-)
[root@alarmpi ~]# df -h
Filesystem
Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

/dev/root
devtmpfs
tmpfs
tmpfs
tmpfs
tmpfs
/dev/mmcblk0p1

7.3G 447M 6.5G 7%

83M
0 83M 0%
231M
0 231M 0%
231M 236K 231M 1%
231M
0 231M 0%
231M
0 231M 0%
90M 24M 67M 27%

/
/dev
/dev/shm
/run
/sys/fs/cgroup
/tmp
/boot