Thread:Talk:BeagleBone Black Extracting eMMC contents/Out of space with dd

with some BBB's we have no problem restoring an older angstrom image with dd (Angstrom image uncompressed is 2.1GB). Image was creating with dd from running system.However,, anyone know why even using this script that some fail with "dd: writing '/dev/mmcblk1': No space left on device". Yes, the image is compressed as well. Is the only option to recreate the iamge and bring the image down to < 2 GB ? Its just odd that it restores the image on some devices w/out issue.