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Resulting Partition Size

Asked by Eric Angleton

I have an 8GB SanDisk Cruzer Fit (https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Cruzer-Low-Profile-Drive-SDCZ33-016G-B35/dp/B005FYNSZA). When writing a ~2GB image (http://download.ltcrabbit.com/SMOS-LTCRabbit-Edition-V2.zip), the resulting partition is only 524 MB, and should frankly be too small to even complete correctly; yet, by all outward appearances, it seems to finish, and even run, properly; but, I'm losing a significant majority, of the available free space, on my usb drive; said free space invariably runs out during normal operation, even though it shouldn't, the partition is just too small; I don't see a way to force it to use all the space. I thought it might just be the usb drive, so I switched to a smaller one, yet I'm still getting the same result; how can a 2GB image be correctly written to just 524 MB of space, and perhaps even more importantly, why can't I force the resulting partition to use all the flash drive's available space? I checked, a fair amount, to see if this, or anything similar had been previously asked, but the closest I found was https://answers.launchpad.net/win32-image-writer/+question/187745 , which is similar, but ultimately unrelated.

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Eric Angleton (angleton) said : 		#1

FWIW; I can re-partition, and re-format, said drive, in Windows 10, and get all of the available free space, as usable, but I obviously lose the written image, on said format; I don't appear to be able to just "extend" the resulting partition, without completely re-formatting.

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Eric Angleton (angleton) said : 		#2

Alright, yet more info, because I'm actively working on this. I see the image was written, with the 600 MB partition, so this is clearly not the fault of your application. What I'm trying now, is to just partition all of the available space, in Windows, then extract the pertinent files, from the image, and just put them into the formatted space. It seems to be going well, so far; I may have (inadvertently) solved this.

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