For context, I am flashing the extended storage Vue After Free onto a drive marketed as “256GB”, but it’s actually a few GB short for some reason. (guide for context: https://github.com/Vuemony/vue-after-free#extended-storage-setup)

The drive I have has 234.3 GiB (~252GB), while the image of Vue After Free is 258 GiB (~256GB), so it cannot flash. Tried both KDE ISO image writer and balenaetcher. Is there any way to force the image to be written, as far as I understand, most of that 256GB is actually empty and it’s only because the PS4 requires a 256GB drive to register an external drive.

The way I see it, it looks like I could either a) spoof the drive into reporting as 256GB (it’s nearly there anyways), and undo that once I need to use it normally again or b) force the image to be flashed despite the storage on the drive being just short, and hoping the PS4 agrees with it given it’s not exactly 256GB

edit: Attempting to use dd to write the image to the drive, if that doesn’t work I’ll just get a later (but slower) drive