Problem with USB key installation

I use dd command to write the iso image to an USB key (8G). Then I use partition tool to increase the Linux partition to 7G from 34M.
But during the installation of xfce4, the OS reports no enough space left. How to solve this issue?
Also parman reports erros during the installation of archiso.
Thanks,

If you burn an iso to a usb with dd, that will not be a persistent system. You cannot actually change the size of if nor install anything new (at least nothing that would survive a reboot).
If you want to install a persistent system on a usb, there is a wiki page for that - and it is pretty simple. I've done it many times. But you need to follow the installation instructions, not the live-media creation instructions.
You'll mount and partition the usb, use pacstrap, configure files, and install a bootloader on the usb.
EDIT: if, however, you don't need a modifiable system, but rather you just want to create a customized live-usb, there are tools for this as well - I haven't used them and I get a couple names confused: archboot and archiso. At least one of those would be the tool for this.
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