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   From: Toby Newman    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: 2Gig SD card will not fill   
   Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 7:00:02 +0000   
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   On 2007-02-08, MCR wrote:   
   > 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,   
      
   Can you remind me how to find out? I thought the inclusion of vfat in   
   the above fstab line told us?   
      
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