SD Card only fills halfway

[Madison Kelly]

William O'Higgins wrote:
> I have a 1 Gb SD card which works just fine under Linux, except that it
> thinks it's full when it isn't.  Here is the error message:
> 
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/card/linux-penguin.png': No space
> left on device
> 
> And here is the output of df:
> 
> /dev/sda1               991488    514192    477296  52% /mnt/card
> 
> The fstab line looks like this:
> 
> /dev/sda1    /mnt/card    vfat    rw,user,noauto      0   0
> 
> I'd just love to be able to use the whole card, but either my Google
> skills are rusty or this is weird/unusual.  Any thoughts?

Just for giggles, have you tried what would happen if you reformatted it 
or, better yet, tried reformatting it as ext{2|3}? I imagine you won't 
want to leave it that way if you are using the card in a camera or on a 
MS machine but it would be interesting to see if the problem persists.

Off hand though I can't think of a particular reason why this would 
happen. Maybe a driver problem? Doubt it though... Have you tried 
copying files to it from a MS machine? I know that again isn't what you 
care to do over time but as a way of seeing if the media itself is okay.

Good luck!

Madison

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