Hacking Details on why the space for CIA installs is so small compared to total free space on SD card

[2haloes]

Hello everyone, I am a bit confused about installion CIA files to a 3ds. (For once, this isn't urgent)

I can do it fine but bigredmenu tells me that I don't have much space on my SD card (Installing smash confused me when it just wouldn't work). Big red menu reported that I had roughly 1.3 GB free but when I checked my SD card, it reported 8GB free. After deleting 10GB of files (I was installing a lot today), big red menu only reported 1GB more free space, is there a reason for this? I don't mind the real technical details, I'm just really confused and Google couldn't help

 

[wurstpistole]

Why don't you use FBI like everybody else?

 

[2haloes]

Why don't you use FBI like everybody else?

I was having issues with a couple of cia files and installing big red box was the recommendation that I saw. I do mainly use FBI

 

[Xenon Hacks]

Why don't you use FBI like everybody else?

FBI is used to install Dev Menu and BBM

 

[BothyBhoy]

i only ever use bigbluemenu only used fbi at the beginning once fbi was injected into health and safety i switched to bigbluemenu it seems to give you more information as in space free on sd card and blocks free in 3ds memory......am i doing wrong? or what?

 

[Deleted-236924]

FBI had problems installing certain .cias while DevMenu/BBM works perfectly every time so that's why I wouldn't really recommend FBI anymore.

As for your problem I wouldn't know. Care to give us more details? Pictures maybe?
Possibly a problem with the SD card? idk.

 

[2haloes]

Here you go
From my phone (I need to use a USB adaptor for this)

From my 3ds