Path: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.co   
   !border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!sn-xt-sjc-05!sn   
   xt-sjc-06!sn-post-sjc-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail   
   From: User    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: 2Gig SD card will not fill   
   Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 11:16:39 +1100   
   Organization: Posted via Supernews, http://www.supernews.com   
   Message-Id:    
   User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux))   
   References:    
   MIME-Version: 1.0   
   Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1   
   Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit   
   X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com   
   Lines: 24   
   Xref: number1.nntp.dca.giganews.com alt.os.linux.ubuntu:10449   
      
   On Thu, 08 Feb 2007 19:02:19 +0000, 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   
      
   Toby   
   Its probably faulty. Return it to the manufacturers. Had the same problem   
   recently. Kingston 2G card. They accepted warranty issue immediately and   
   posted me a replacement. Hope this helps.   
   --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5   
    * Origin: Omicron Theta BBS (1:261/20)