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Unable to make unused space available on Live USB



I've successfully created my own live image and I can write it to my USB drive but I can't seem to figure out how to make the unused space on the USB drive available. 

The Live-Debian documentation (https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/the-basics.en.html#191) indicates that the live partition can be resized with gparted or parted and another writeable partition can be created, however neither application allows me to do this. 

When I used the print command in parted I get the following: 

```
$ sudo parted /dev/sda
GNU Parted 3.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print                                                            
Warning: The driver descriptor says the physical block size is 2048 bytes, but Linux says it is 512 bytes.
Ignore/Cancel? I                                                          
Model:  USB  SanDisk 3.2Gen1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 246GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 2048B/512B
Partition Table: mac
Disk Flags:

Number  Start  End     Size    File system  Name   Flags
 1      2048B  6143B   4096B                Apple
 2      379kB  3164kB  2785kB               EFI
```

If I try to use mkpart to create a new primary, extended, or logical partition I get errors about to many primary partitions. 
I also find it odd that the Partition Table is "mac" (which I think equates to a hfsplus layout).

I'm wondering if there is a way to make the Partition table gpt or mbr? 

Any help would be greatly appreciated. 
Matt S. 


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