SD Card only fills halfway
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
Fri Feb 11 04:07:23 UTC 2005
On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, William O'Higgins wrote:
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/card/linux-penguin.png': No space
> left on device
> /dev/sda1 991488 514192 477296 52% /mnt/card
The no-space error code sometimes indicates related problems rather than
actual exhaustion of space. One thought: try "df -i".
> /dev/sda1 /mnt/card vfat rw,user,noauto 0 0
Another thought: VFAT is an odd and somewhat limited filesystem -- never
meant for gigabyte devices! -- and it's possible you're running out of
some kind of internal resource peculiar to VFAT. Not sure how you would
confirm that, though...
Henry Spencer
henry-lqW1N6Cllo0sV2N9l4h3zg at public.gmane.org
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