# usb flashing preloaded image

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** jetson\
**Created:** [February 12, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400 "2021-02-12T15:38:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![jap937](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jap937](https://forums.balena.io/u/jap937)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/1 "2021-02-12T15:38:25Z")

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hello,

i am attempting to flash my application to my jetson-nano-emmc devices via usb. I am flashing an image (2.56.0+rev1), which i have preloaded with an application and a splash image, i get the error below.  
the error mentions that not enough space is available, but have plenty of space left when flashing with a non-preloaded image followed by updating it from the cloud  
does anyone have some insight in what is going wrong?

```
[3.1731] Writing partition resin-boot with resin-boot
[3.1971] [................................................] 100%
[6.5253] Writing partition resin-rootA with resin-rootA
[7.6122] [................................................] 100%
[27.7239] Writing partition resin-rootB with resin-rootB
[28.5631] [................................................] 100%
[48.6180] Writing partition resin-state with resin-state
[49.4839] [................................................] 100%
[50.3212] Writing partition resin-data with resin-data
[50.7840] 00000004: Filesize is bigger than partition size
[50.8121] 
Error: Return value 4
Command tegradevflash --pt flash.xml.bin --storageinfo storage_info.bin --create
Failed flashing t210ref.
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**Author:** ![ab77](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/ab77/32/2870_2.png) [@ab77](https://forums.balena.io/u/ab77)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2021, 8:07pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/5 "2021-02-12T20:07:55Z")

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Hi there, how big is the image file on your disk and what storage is the device reporting out of interest?

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**Author:** ![jap937](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jap937](https://forums.balena.io/u/jap937)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 8:23am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/13 "2021-02-15T08:23:02Z")

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the image is 3.8 Gb and the storage device is an integrated 16Gb emmc  
the final image is a little bigger though

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**Author:** ![pipex](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/pipex/32/4840_2.png) [@pipex](https://forums.balena.io/u/pipex)\
**Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 6:00pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/15 "2021-02-15T18:00:53Z")

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Hi there,

What do you mean by ‘the final image’? Do you have a Jetson device flashed with a bare balenaOS (not preloaded), we would like to perform some checks on the partitions to inspect everything is working properly before digging deeper into the preloading issue.

Cheers  
Felipe

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**Author:** ![jap937](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jap937](https://forums.balena.io/u/jap937)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 10:41am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/17 "2021-02-16T10:41:27Z")

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i reduced the application to the most basic files just to get everything up and running.  
i preflashed balena(no preload) and downloaded the full application(7.5Gb)  
afterwards, i flashed with the preloaded image (meanwhile reduced to only the base docker) and then I get the same error.

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**Author:** ![acostach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@acostach](https://forums.balena.io/u/acostach)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2021, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/19 "2021-02-17T08:57:33Z")

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Hi @jap937 ,

Flashing preloaded images is currently not supported by jetson-flash but you can try increasing the partition size in the XML to account for the size of your data partition. For this, you can edit assets/jetson-nano-emmc-assets/resinOS-flash.xml at line 241 and increase the current value in bytes 212860928 to the actual size of your partition.

You can check the current size of your data partition with  
`parted -s <your_image> unit B print`

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**Author:** ![jap937](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f04885/32.png) [@jap937](https://forums.balena.io/u/jap937)\
**Post date:** [February 18, 2021, 11:59am UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/34 "2021-02-18T11:59:55Z")

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thank you, this works perfectly.  
The preloaded (7.5 Gb) image has been flashed and seems to work as it is supposed to.

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**Author:** ![acostach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@acostach](https://forums.balena.io/u/acostach)\
**Post date:** [March 16, 2021, 3:16pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/usb-flashing-preloaded-image/254400/36 "2021-03-16T15:16:21Z")

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Hi, just wanted to let you know that starting with version 0.5.7 this should work by default, without needing to modify the size manually anymore.