No space left on device even though it has free space?
How can a drive appear full when its not. I've reformatted but still can't use all of it.
cp: writing `/mnt/usbdrive/enine/Pictures/2005 Aniversery/im002591-800x600.jpg': No space left on device root@darkstar:/home/enine# df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 9381028 7467780 1412828 85% / /dev/hda4 93232360 78665180 9831220 89% /home /dev/sdc1 57685532 32232976 22522304 59% /mnt/usbdrive |
how much data are you trying to move. Looks like you've got about 2 gigs available. The cp command probably writes it to a temp file first, then to permanent storage, so it needs to use twice as much space as the amount of data you're writing.
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just a bunch of little 4m pictures
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Maybe you're running out of inodes?
Try: df -i Whats your permissions? mount | grep -i usbdrive |
Make sure your not mounting a directory with data in it. Common mistake.
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Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sdb1 7325696 52729 7272967 1% /mnt/usbdrive looks like I'm only using 1% of my inodes on it? Or does that mean only 1% is free? hmm, df -T says its ext2 instead of ext3, maybe thats the difference, I can't recall the ext2 limits now. |
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This limit only affects the root of a partition. It's annoying but easily worked around by organizing files into subdirectories. I personally think there should be a warning on usb disk packages because I see this a lot. |
Thousands, but they are in subfolders. About 10G worth now as I have pictures going back to 2000 then a few scanned from earlier years.
The external drive is formatted ext2. Well was I formatted again last night and switched to ext3. |
Still having problems, or did you solve it?
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