hi all
i have got a pen drive with around 80MB free space and now i am trying to copy 21 MB file but i am getting error message that there is no enough space.Its showing around 423KB on Fedora Core 6 whereas if i try in any other OS it shows correct spoace i.e. 80 MB free...
Any help would be greatly appriciated..
thanks in advance

Hi,

I would not rely on that information. Have you controlled the size with fdisk?
Else, copy all existing files to your PC and format your stick.

Greetings

Shaddy

Well i am quite new to linux, so i am not sure how to control the size with fdisk or how to format the disk.
Well i entered the command #fdisk /dev/sda1 which gave me another line to enter command i.e.
command (m for help)
Now what command should i give, i dont understand.
Any ideas how can i use all free space of my pen drive.
thanks

well i dont want to format pen drive. There is nothing in it. its 80 MB of size which is available. Well but FC6 is not detecting the full size of it. It is just detecting around 423KB size which is not enough to transfer any file from FC6 to pendrive.
Any help!!!!!!!!

The pen drive is only 80MB total capacity!!??

Sometimes there is a trash folder--maybe hidden. Do ls -a and see what you find.

Thanks for reply

Yes pen drive is only 80MB and i am trying to copy 20MB file from fedora core 6 OS but as its detecting only 423KB memory in that Pen drive cos of which i am unable to copy it.
well i did entered this command ls -a but i am not able to get it...may be it makes some sense to you ...
pls look below for its output...

[root@localhost ~]# ls -a
. .dmrc .ICEauthority .recently-used.xbel
.. .eggcups install.log .redhat
anaconda-ks.cfg .esd_auth install.log.syslog .scim
.bash_history .evolution .kde .tcshrc
.bash_logout .gconf .local .thumbnails
.bash_profile .gconfd .metacity .Trash
.bashrc .gnome .mozilla .virt-manager
.beagle .gnome2 .nautilus .vnc
.config .gnome2_private .openoffice.org2.0 .wapi
.cshrc .gstreamer-0.10 .qt .xsession-errors
Desktop .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .recently-used

And as you said about trash folder, yeh there is one trash folder but thats only to store what i delete from my memory drive...and that is empty aswell. Now how to get access to that file...its kind a urgent...
Any more suggestions...

Thanks

Did you do ls -a /dev/sda1?
The output looked like it came from your home dir rather than the pen drive.
If you have no data of any value on the pen drive formatting it should give you maximum free space. That is the route I would take.

yeh i did ls -a /dev/sda1 aswell, but this giving me output as
/dev/sda1
for formating i tried this command
#fdisk /dev/sda
command (m for help): mkfs -t vfat /dev/sda1
but nothing is happening, it is just givin me help sectoion as output.
i tried with
#mkfs.vfat -F32 /dev/sda1
but nothing is working for me....Is it a common problem in linux that it doesnt show the correct amount of space in pen drive if tried without any modifications or its just happening with me.
I am using FC6 from last 2-3 weeks but i never tried to copy any file more then 1 MB ....today i did and got stucked....
Do you think formating could help me out, if yes then how should i format this now....is pen drive always allocated on /dev/sda1 or it could be /sda2 or something...
Thanks a lot

it worked :-)

mke2fs /dev/sda/
mkdir /mnt/usbthumb
mount -t ext2 /dev/sda1 /mnt/usbthumb

Above commands worked for me atlast.....
Thanks all of you who replied to my thread....
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!!!Enjoy