Image file too big?

[felix123]

The image file I downloaded is too big for my sd card, but I know the data inside the image is smaller than the sd card, is there a way to resize the image to make it fit?

eg http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewt ... f=5&t=5917 8GB image but not much stuff inside?

[Joe Schmoe]

What image file is 8G? Aren't they all about 2G?

[nick.mccloud]

The OpenELEC image orginally posted is an 8Gb monster.

If the OP read further down the thread he would see that some super hero type has already provided a smaller version.

[felix123]

Hi Nick, I did try your image, but my 4GB card is slightly smaller than your 4GB image, so can't make it work, unfortunately.

[nick.mccloud]

Hi Nick, I did try your image, but my 4GB card is slightly smaller than your 4GB image, so can't make it work, unfortunately.

Hmm, it was built specifically to be about 250Mb under but I guess 3.75GiB <> 3.75Gb - it's all this pounds, shilling & euro's that I can't get to grip with.

I'll redo it for 1.5GiB later on when I've got work out the way.

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--- OpenELEC.10977.img
Regular file, size 3.776 GiB (4054843392 bytes)
No type and creator code
DOS/MBR partition map
Partition 1: 125 MiB (131072000 bytes, 256000 sectors from 2048, bootable)
  Type 0x0C (Win95 FAT32 (LBA))
  FAT16 file system (hints score 5 of 5)
    Volume size 124.7 MiB (130797568 bytes, 63866 clusters of 2 KiB)
    Volume name "System"
Partition 2: 3.478 GiB (3733979136 bytes, 7292928 sectors from 258048)
  Type 0x83 (Linux)
  Ext3 file system
    Volume name "Storage"
    UUID CBD622B6-A460-4F1E-9BBA-8534BA1D16A9 (DCE, v4)
    Last mounted at "/storage"
    Volume size 3.478 GiB (3733979136 bytes, 911616 blocks of 4 KiB)

[felix123]

Can you please tell me how you resize the image?

[nick.mccloud]

Can you please tell me how you resize the image?

I can tell you how to make it bigger but making it smaller, I guess you could use fdisk/gparted on the image mounted as loopback but I haven't done that yet so I'd be a bit vague on the details.

Making your own instructions can be found here: http://openelec.tv/component/k2/item/24 ... -pi-part-2

Which is how I made mine.