1 Gigabyte SD card "full" after 467 MB

[Darryl Clarke]

On 09/02/06, Charles E Rick Taylor IV <rick at rickandpatty.com> wrote:
> 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.)

512 is the 'short name' limit in the root of the FAT16 drive.

If you use long filenames/folders this limit gets reduced by some
crazy mathematical formula that I can't remember right now.

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