Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

[Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org>]

Le Sun 19/09/2010, Rodolfo Medina disait
> Hi all.
> 
> When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an
> inexplicable `No space left on device' error message:
> 
> 
> `11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg'
> `11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg'
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg': No space left on device
> `11022008701.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008701.jpg'
> cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008701.jpg': No space left on device
> 
> 
> The command df seems to show that everything is all right:
> 
> $ df -lh
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda6              11G  9.2G  912M  92% /
> tmpfs                 110M     0  110M   0% /lib/init/rw
> udev                   10M   80K   10M   1% /dev
> tmpfs                 110M     0  110M   0% /dev/shm
> /dev/hda1             7.8G  7.3G  541M  94% /mnt/hda1
> /dev/hda7             4.9G  1.9G  2.7G  42% /mnt/hda7
> /dev/hda8             4.9G  3.4G  1.3G  74% /mnt/hda8
> /dev/hda9             7.9G  2.7G  4.9G  36% /mnt/hda9
> /dev/sda1             1.9G   40M  1.9G   3% /mnt/pendrive-carolina2
> 

What does df -i say ?
You might be out of inodes (depends on the filesystem of the key)
-- 
Erwan