1 Gigabyte SD card "full" after 467 MB

[Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 01:18 +0900, Dave M G wrote:

>     I have a new SD card, purchased today. I loaded it in my USB card 
> reader, and started copying MP3 and OGG files to it from within Amarok.

>     I checked the properties of the SD card by right clicking on the 
> desktop icon, and it says there is only 467 MB used, and there is 476.9 
> MB available.

>     I tried copying a file within the Gnome/Nautilus GUI, and then from 
> the command line. In each instance, it returns an error saying the drive 
> is full.

This *may* not be your problem, but isn't there a number-of-files
limitation for the root directory of any FAT-formatted device?  Either
256 or 512 files, if I remember correctly, can be in the root directory.
If that's your problem, you might want to make some directories on that
SD card and copy files there instead of to the root directory.

(I had this bite me once while backing up a bunch of small files to a
ZIP drive some time ago.)

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