# SD card too small **URL:** \ **Category:** emonPi\ **Created:** [18 July 2025 15:45 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/sd-card-too-small/28882 "2025-07-18T15:45:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 2
**Author:** ![Robert.Wall](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/user_avatar/community.openenergymonitor.org/robert.wall/32/38246_2.png) [@Robert.Wall](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/u/Robert.Wall)\ **Post date:** [18 July 2025 16:01 UTC](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/sd-card-too-small/28882/2 "2025-07-18T16:01:29Z")
I don’t know - but you don’t _ **need** _ a card of the size that the SD image _appears_ to be made from/for. > [@emonSD 8 GB](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/emonsd-8-gb/22756/2): > > I’ve shrunk it to fit an 8 GB card, and written it up - somewhere. It’s tortuous and while 8 GB and for that matter 16 GB cards are hard to find, I can’t understand why the image has to be made for a specific size of card, as it’s a whole lot easier to expand the image than shrink it. Here’s what I did - it was on a Staff-only topic: I followed from the heading: Shrinking images on Linux to the bottom. Where it states: Now notice a few things: There is one partition. The partition alloc… But… looking quickly at Argos, they don’t list anything smaller than 32 GB. The last time I looked, I think 16 GB were more expensive than 32. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.openenergymonitor.org/t/sd-card-too-small/28882)._