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?
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. Sven ¹ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat16#Final_FAT16 -- 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/87hbhm5d3w....@turtle.gmx.de
