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   Subject: Re: 2Gig SD card will not fill   
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   Toby Newman wrote:   
   > I have a 2Gig SD card. When I put it in my PDA it shows 1206MB free of   
   > 1934MB.   
   >    
   > However, when I mount it and try to copy a 700MB file to it, after about   
   > 350MB have been copied I get the error:   
   >    
   > Could not write file /foo/baa.zip.   
   > Disk full.   
   > [OK]   
   >    
   > I've set KSysGuard up to show "Partition Usage/media/sdd1/Fill Level" and,   
   > lo and behold, it shows that my card is nearly full rather than having   
   > 1.2Gig free as it should.   
   >    
   > Why is my system unaware of all the spare space on this SDCard?   
   > If it helps, the line in fstab which mounts it is:   
   > /dev/sdd1 /media/sdd1 vfat users,uid=claire,gid=users,noauto,umask=000 0 0   
   >    
   '   
   What is it formatted as?  Perhaps it is FAT or some weird filesystem    
   that has a file size limit,   
      
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