Actually not true. The imager doesn't care about existing format and writes bit by bit. Some cards are 8GB others are 8GiB
Manufacturers don't all use the same standard.? Same with hard drives.? And if you look at the manufacturers specs, somewhere they actually list size by Bytes and you'll see the difference there.
GiB is 1024MB, GB is 1000MB
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On Mar 3, 2022, at 07:35, "Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF" <
nigel@...> wrote:
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
----- Original Message -----
From: "Nigel Gunn, G8IFF/W8IFF"
To: [email protected], "Ed via "
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2022 07:49:14 AM
Subject: Re: [RaspberryPi-4-HamRadio] PiShrink?
Isn't it easier to just buy a bigger SD card or an external disk drive?
On 03/03/2022 09:42 Ed via wrote:
Is the?PiShrink ( ( the best way to shrink images for archiving or for use with a smaller SD card?
Thanks & 73,
Ed
N2BHD
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Amateur Radio G8IFF W8IFF and GMRS WRBV701, e-mail nigel@... www ()
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