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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