1 Gigabyte SD card "full" after 467 MB [SOLVED]

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 07:45:37AM -0500, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> On 2/10/06, Dave M G <martin at autotelic.com> wrote:
> > Fortunately, since only the root has this problem, as mentioned
> > above, I've moved everything into subdirectory, and that seems to
> > have made the entire 1GB available.
> >
>
It's worth noting that there is a similar limit on most unix-like
filesystems, including ext3, where it's possible to run out of inodes
and get disk full errors even when there's free space. Unlike the FAT
case inodes are used over the whole fs, so if you run out, you've run
out. In practice most filesystems have huge numbers of inodes, but you
can see how you're doing with 'df -i'. It's easy to play with using
tmpfs which allows you to set the number of inodes arbitrarily.
 
> Perhaps it would be worth filing a bug report with (?) Nautilus? It
> would be helpful if Nautilus were to report the problem, and, since
> it's an easy problem to solve, suggest a fix.
> 
It's not that easy; the writing app will simply get ENOSPC in response
to either problem, with no way to tell the difference. The only way to
do it would be to build understanding of each filesystem in each app and
have them check for what kind of out-of-space error they were hitting.

Ewan
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