-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 13:15:06 +0200 Rodolfo Medina <[email protected]> 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 -- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMlf08AAoJEMEDyLTvrVhjvSwH/0CBX6G4sJHDZ4LWaJ8+6Yg0 zS/3KUzFGBmD3BQVYe0jj/Fj6TbfZ0yV5MkjiQRvfK/eNU8ptsNV6g/hglgdLcC+ DqAUGbxFm9xX9psDF2+O3YrgU7XWSw25VCYOITTRqr6iE6ujcGO/abQkb3tsD8Ep YvQudutnFV7+jFu6YsDf3wJOfHsURb3mP1aVMLRww4LP8rAUYb4OARHPPesLssmR xOBo3XQFHTfyF+pPSUUvVUd3tmuZOGcC5vBcMoV8SuxXRdJ6K1eIcV0NzJbtXcUV yziOJEUyUDTUAToBnDUvq+wJM0Z6nJAbfC9DInOeGNzNrazB7U9E0jHPlWRYTCU= =nB5M -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]

