Too big for 4GB card

[Gustavo Niemeyer]

Any of these would fix the issue for the card I have at hand, but I'm
tempted to suggest the middle one (3.9e9).

Thanks!

On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 5:19 PM, Alexander Sack <asac at canonical.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Gustavo Niemeyer
> <gustavo.niemeyer at canonical.com> wrote:
>> The newest images seem to present the same issue still.
>>
>> Any chance/intention of fixing this?
>
> yes please!
>
> Michael/Sergio: can you make a trello card so we don't forget for next
> milestone?
>
> Gustavo/All: what buffer should we use to make this safe?
>
> (4-0.05)*10^9 bytes?
> (4-0.10)*10^9 bytes?
> (4-0.20)*10^9 bytes?
>
> Any preference or maybe ideas how to find the perfect number? I tend
> to think unless we have good ideas, we should rather add more buffer
> to be safe :).
>
>>
>> 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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