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 <er...@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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/874odmouh1....@gmail.com
