[solved] Re: Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive
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?
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> writes:
> Not necessarily (unless you want a better filesystem), but you should
> create some subdirectories and move files there. FAT16 has a rather low
> limit of directory entries for the root directory¹, and you're hitting
> that.
>
> Switching to FAT32 will avoid that and also waste less disk space, since
> the cluster size gets reduced to 4 KiB from 32 KiB with FAT16.
Thanks. I switched to fat32: within parted, I did: `mkpartfs primary fat32'.
Now the problem seems to be solved.
Rodolfo
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