Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

[Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com>]

On 2010-09-19 10:26 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote:

> 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
>
>
> and so parted:
>
> # parted /dev/sda1
> GNU Parted 1.7.1
> Using /dev/sda1
> Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
> (parted) p
>
> Disk /dev/sda1: 2004MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: loop
>
> Number  Start   End     Size    File system  Flags
>  1      0.00kB  2004MB  2004MB  fat16
>
>
> Please help understand what the problem may be.  Should I format the device?


Erwan David <erwan@rail.eu.org> writes:

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


Effectively, df -i produces a suspect output:

$ df -i
Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/hda6            1409024  147438 1261586   11% /
tmpfs                  28039       2   28037    1% /lib/init/rw
udev                   28039     512   27527    2% /dev
tmpfs                  28039       1   28038    1% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1                  0       0       0    -  /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda7             640000      14  639986    1% /mnt/hda7
/dev/hda8             640000   51785  588215    9% /mnt/hda8
/dev/hda9             525200   54395  470805   11% /mnt/hda9
/dev/sda1                  0       0       0    -  /mnt/pendrive-carolina2


What then?

Thanks
Rodolfo