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 <svenj...@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 -- 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/87vd61ix31....@gmail.com
