Raspberry Pi SD Card Image is too big for another SD Card

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 6, 2016

When you work with SD cards from different producers you realize that although cards are marked as 8GB they actually differ with some small bytes. For example I have AData SD card which is 8GB but it is slightly bigger that 8GB Toshiba SD card. And when I try to save image produced on AData on Toshiba SD card I got error saying that there is not enough space on disk. In this short tutorial I will show you how to resize an Image file to fit to another SD card.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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