Re: [tlug] New 1 GB SD card reports being full after only 467 MBused

[Edward Middleton <edward@example.com>]

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon wrote:
> Dave Gutteridge wrote:
>   
>>   How is it that Ubuntu/Linux can see that there is 476.9 MB free, but 
>> at the same time think the SD card is full?
>>
>>   And how do I solve this problem?
>>
>>   Any advice would be much appreciated.
>>     
> This is just a wild stab in the dark, but how many files did you copy 
> over?  Is it possible that there is a maximum number of files that 
> you've reached?  I know I had that problem years ago with floppy disks 
> and also SuperDisks (yes, I was stupid enough to actually buy a 
> SuperDisk drive!).  Irrespective of the total amount of space used, 
> there was a maximum number of files that would go on - something like 
> 110 for a floppy disk if I remember correctly.  I had a lot of small 
> .txt files at the time, so I took to putting batches of 100 into .lzh 
> files and saving them that way....
>   
It should be [1]65,517 files for a fat16 formated SD card.

Edward

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Allocation_Table