Too big for 4GB card

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

The newest images seem to present the same issue still.

Any chance/intention of fixing this?

On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 1:04 AM, Gustavo Niemeyer
<gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> 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 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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