SD Card only fills halfway

[Nezumikozo]

Has this card ever showed the full capacity?  Sounds like its half dead.



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?
>  
>

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