You're new cards were 7.9 because they were preformatted for Windows and you loose some space to the format information. They're still 8G cards.
On 03/03/2022 10:11 Teton Amateur Radio Repeater Association (TARRA) <tarra@...> wrote:
No. For the few minutes it takes to shrink it, not worth buying hardware for something that has a quick and easy software solution.
Here is an example that got be started with PiShrink. Yes I bought some new cards. They were supposed to be 8 gig cards since that is what I use. They were actually 7.9 gig cards. The image from the 8 gig cards wouldn't fit on the new cards. After using PiShrink, the shrunken image fit just fine on the new cards.
I probably have over 20 images. That is 160 gigs of images (or more). Silly to buy bigger cards, which will make for bigger images and the need for a bigger hard drive just for storage. After shrinking, I am down to 20 gigs.
I don't understand the concept of the OS filling all the unused space on the card when there isn't anything there. If you have a hard drive, you don't fill the whole unused space on it. It only uses what it needs when it needs it.
Mick - W7CAT
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From: "Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF"
To: [email protected], "Ed via groups.io"
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2022 07:49:14 AM
Subject: Re: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] PiShrink?
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