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Jack, this Linux installation program for the flash drive must have been around for a while. I guess at the time a 4GB stick was the ultimate. So the guy who developed the program just tuned it to the sticks of the time.
What I did now is to use the extra space for a second partition - like a data partition. And since that can be seen by the Linux on the stick, I can use it for storage and get at it from Linux. On my 120GB stick that is more than 100GBs, so ample storage.
If you always operate on the same PC, that is not really required because you can get at all partitions that are installed on that PC. You can even use those partitions to store or retrieve data from the Linux system. However, if you want to use the Linux on the stick on several different PCs, then you need the data that you want to carry around on that same stick.