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Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive



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On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:15:06 +0200
Rodolfo Medina <rodolfo.medina@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
> >
> >
> 
> 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?



  Listen to what Sven Joachim is saying. The problem arises because
of FAT formatting. You can only put a certain number of files
(128??) in the root. Create a sub-directory and put your files in
there. Problem solved.


- -- 
- -- Frank --
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