Not Enough Memory for OS

[rpiswag]

I want to install a os that is 7.96 gb on a 8 gb sd card but the sd card says it can only hold 7.88 gb. Is there some way for me to get 8 gb from the sd card.

[expandables]

NO

[fruitoftheloom]

I want to install a os that is 7.96 gb on a 8 gb sd card but the sd card says it can only hold 7.88 gb. Is there some way for me to get 8 gb from the sd card.

8GB is the drive space in Denary base 10

7.8125 is the drive space in Binary base 2

Google is good...

[kusti8]

If the SD card is filled to the brim, then no.

If it hasn't been shrunken, then you can use GParted to clear that extra space and resize it on the first boot.

[mikerr]

The root problem is that different brands of "8GB" cards vary in their true capacity: from 7.2GB to 7.8GB

An image created from a larger card can't be written to a smaller one.

SanDisk though good cards, do tend to be at the lower end eg 7.2GB

[topguy]

I want to install a os that is 7.96 gb on a 8 gb sd card but the sd card says it can only hold 7.88 gb. Is there some way for me to get 8 gb from the sd card.

In which format do you have this OS ? I'm guessing that its an imagefile that you try to write to sdcard with some software, is this assumption correct ? (Which software btw. ?)

Its very unlikely that the filesystem in that image is full, so its possible that it will work quite well even if the very last bit is not written to the sdcard. Then its just a matter of convincng the software to write even if the card is slightly too small. (In Linux with "dd" this is easy).

The second method is more complicated and involves:
* mounting the image as a disk
* resizing the partition slighty
* and then chopping of the last part of the image-file.
I know a recipe for Doing this on Linux but not on any other OS.

[DougieLawson]

Simple answer, buy a 16GB microSD.

Less simple answer, moan to the folks who supplied the image and ask if they can trim it down below 7GB before publishing it.