SD Card only fills halfway

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Feb 11, 2005 at 07:01:14AM -0500, William O'Higgins wrote:
> That may be next.  I tried Anton's suggestion of altering fstab to
> include calls to sync, but that made no difference.
> 
> Tons.  Logwatch is having a field day.  However, there don't appear to
> be any errors, save for when I try to mount /dev/sda (which I do for USB
> keys) when the card is in the reader.
> 
> The card has never shown full capacity.  I hope it's not half dead -
> that would be tiresome.
> 
> There was one other suggestion - that there are too many files in the
> top level directory - well, I doubt it, because there are 147.  Thanks
> though.

If you use long files names (what vfat is for) then 147 files can easily
take 512 dir entries.  That would only require average filenames of
around 20 characters each.

Lennart Sorensen
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