When you use a USB thumb drive to make an installation 'image' from an .iso file - even though the .iso may use up only a couple gigabytes of space the balance of the space becomes 'unavailable'.Good advice, it worked, the checksums agreed.
Now I upgraded Etcher, installed Mint Mate in usb stick. But funny thing. The usb stick is 16 GB, printed right on the side of it, but the properties (in Win 7) said 6]
GB. Now that Etcher has installed to the usb stick, properties says 2.5 MB capacity, 14 kilobytes free! Etcher installed a folder named Efi. subfolder boot, with two files inside; bootx64.efi and grubx64.efi. Does that sound right?
Sounds strange to me, but I only have experienced loading Ubuntu once.
jjconstr
There are operations, partitioning, persistence, etc. which will enable the use of the rest of the drive space but I usually just "let-'er-rip" and put one .iso on a drive.
That sounds to me like the stick has some of the space partitioned as a Linux file system (e.g. ext4).The usb stick is 16 GB, printed right on the side of it, but the properties (in Win 7) said 6 GB.
Windows is rather a 'snob' in that regard and refuses to recognize Linux file systems.
Sounds about right. But I am no 'expert'. Some others may want to weigh in.Etcher installed a folder named Efi. subfolder boot, with two files inside; bootx64.efi and grubx64.efi. Does that sound right?
If you can look at the USB stick from within Linux you may get a better, more reasonable assessment of just what is going on with it.