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I have a formatted 8gb sd card (7.1gb available) and I've tried multiple times to install the roughly 4gb in size RetroPie disk image.

Each time I do, it says I have 55.9mb left and says it becomes FAT format when I previously formatted it to NTFS.

Has anyone else had this problem?

SaturnsEye
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This is always the case when installing RetroPie from the image. You have to expand the filesystem to make all of the space available to you. Go to the command line. If in Emulation Station then press F4 to get to the command line. At the command line type:

sudo raspi-config

and press Enter. This will display the configuration tool. Select option 1. Expand the Filesystem an press Enter.

That's all you have to do. The full space will be available for you to use now.

jbutewicz
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Using raspi-config expand didn't work for me after several tries, had to do the following:

sudo resize2fs /dev/mmcblk0p2

This seemed to work as expected.

mpowered
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