Reluctantly, I've increased the size of the mesh desktop image up to 15GB, to fit on a 16GB drive. This doesn't affect the size of the compressed download. It gives a more comfortable amount of space for user data, photos, blogs, etc, without needing to resize using something like Gparted.

These days 16GB flash drives are super cheap, so this shouldn't be much of an obstacle.

!Freedombone