Too big for 4GB card

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

4GiB would actually be 300MiB *over* 4*10^9 bytes, so the image is already
discounting that. The device I have is ~3.98*10^9 bytes.
On Feb 13, 2015 1:03 AM, "Gustavo Niemeyer" <gustavo at niemeyer.net> wrote:

> 4GiB would actually be 300MiB *over* 4*10^9 bytes, so the image is already
> discounting that. The device I have is ~3.98*10^9 bytes.
> On Feb 13, 2015 12:25 AM, "Joe Talbott" <joe.talbott at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 10:58:43PM -0200, Sergio Schvezov wrote:
>> > On jueves 12 de febrero de 2015 22h'25:51 BRST, Gustavo Niemeyer wrote:
>> > >Hey all,
>> > >
>> > >It would be good to reduce the snappy image size just a little bit.
>> > >I have a Kingston MicroSD card that self-reports as 4GB, but it
>> > >is not large enough to hold the image. I had to take a few MB
>> > >out from the last partition to make it work.
>> >
>> > I totally agree! I just haven't figured out what a "bit" is; I guess
>> > I we can be on the safe side and say 4GB is going to 3.9GB (-100MB
>> > to be on the safe side given the plethora of devices).
>> >
>> > Is that a good number?
>> >
>> > Ogra, you gave me a long explanation on variation; is +/-100MB a
>> > good σ expected on the population of sdcards around?
>>
>> It's my understanding that a lot of storage manufacturers use 1000 as
>> the number of bits per kilobyte rather than 1024.  I'd think -300MB would
>> suffice as that's roughly the difference between the two.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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