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    My New SD Card To Small for Image?? OR will it work?

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      RetroFreak89
      last edited by

      hey everyone,

      Im having an issue right now lol
      i bouht a new 16gb sd card its a samsung edge class 10 ( it was really cheap)
      i needed it for my backup image which is also a 16gb well 14.8 to be exact
      well i tried writing the image to my new sd card but a message pops up saying
      more space required then available required 31225856,available is 31116288
      then right below it it says ''the extra space does NOT appear to contain data continue anyway?''
      so does that mean it will work? cause the exptra space does not contain data so i should continue and write anyway?
      will i be missing anything? prob not right?

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      • BobHarrisB
        BobHarris @RetroFreak89
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        @RetroFreak89 I may be wrong, but I don't think that will work ok. I ran into the same problem...backing up the image and writing it back to the same card..i got the same message as you did. So now I just use 32 gb cards for my 16 gb image.

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        • ClydeC
          Clyde @RetroFreak89
          last edited by Clyde

          @RetroFreak89 One way to make sure that the extra space really doesn't contain any data is to shrink the second partition on the original sd card by 1 GB. But since this partition contains a Linux file system, you need a Linux partitioner like GParted for that (or a Windows partitioner that can shrink Linux partitions with the file system ext4 on them, if such a tool exists).

          If you're not using Linux anyway, you could use the GParted Live image that boots from a CD or a USB medium into a graphical Linux system with GParted pre-installed.

          After shrinking the second partition on your card, you would make a new image that has guaranteed no data in its last 1 GB and should be safe to write to your new card. After confirming that the new card works and has all the data on it, you could then grow its second partition with GParted to the maximum size of the new card.

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