A manually written image will be of a fixed size (usually made to fit the smallest-sized SD card possible). To make full use of the SD card, you will need to expand the system partition to fill the remainder of the SD card. This can be achieved using the Raspberry Pi Configuration tool.
Select Expand Filesystem, as shown in the following screenshot:
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