1 Gigabyte SD card "full" after 467 MB

[Russ]

Hi Dave,

I just responded to this thread and decided to check something out. I 
did and here is the answer for your problem and mine.

In my other email (that I just sent 5 min ago) I said that this exact 
same thing happened to me on 2 different cards (different brand names). 
The root directory limit got me thinking. I sent my reply email, then 
went out to my truck and got my SD card ( I listen to mp3's while I 
drive). It was full with a little over 400 megs. I tried to create a 
folder, couldn't. Deleted one song, created a folder the proceeded to 
copy 400megs more into that folder. There is a root directory limit.

Russ

Dave M G wrote:
> Ubuntu Users,
>
>    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.
>
>    Everything was going fine, until Amarok suddenly reported that it 
> could not copy to the storage device.
>
>    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.
>
>    How is it that Ubuntu/Linux can see that there is 476.9 MB free, 
> but at the same time think the SD card is full?
>
>    And how do I solve this problem?
>
>    Any advice would be much appreciated.
>
>    Thank you.
>
> -- 
> Dave M G
>