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Oxide

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Registered: 2017-06-12

Posts: 6

No space left on device (trying to copy data onto microSD)

Hi, I was trying to copy about 12 GB of files onto a 60GB microSD card, which I had completely wiped before using

sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb

and then formatted as exfat. This is the output of

lsblk -f

NAME   FSTYPE LABEL UUID                                 FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT
sda                                                                     
├─sda1 ext2         e2d3ce8e-ad27-4772-a0e2-44d270fb8e21   64.5M    43% /boot
├─sda2 swap         46e04118-7b96-4ed9-87f3-207569886228                [SWAP]
└─sda3 ext4         c0fb50b9-5156-48ce-ba25-87ccf0bd7bbd  798.8G     7% /
sdb    exfat        1C19-8248                                  0   100% /run/media/oxide/1FE7-62DD
sr0                                                                      

This is the output of

df -h

Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev             1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /dev
run             1.7G  708K  1.7G   1% /run
/dev/sda3       914G   69G  799G   8% /
tmpfs           1.7G  104M  1.6G   6% /dev/shm
tmpfs           1.7G     0  1.7G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           1.7G  140M  1.6G   9% /tmp
/dev/sda1       124M   54M   65M  46% /boot
tmpfs           344M   32K  344M   1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb         60G   60G     0 100% /run/media/oxide/1FE7-62DD

And

df -i

Filesystem     Inodes  IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb       487232 487232     0  100% /run/media/oxide/1FE7-62DD

Last edited by Oxide (2019-05-21 18:44:33)

seth

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Re: No space left on device (trying to copy data onto microSD)

and then formatted as exfat

I guess this is the part where you should *really* add some details on what you did.

Are there any (hidden?) files on that drive?
How did you mount it? (Options, output of  "mount"?)
You *did* use https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … fat-utils/ and did not just flag the disk type and then formatted it vfat, did you?

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Oxide

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Registered: 2017-06-12

Posts: 6

Re: No space left on device (trying to copy data onto microSD)

and then formatted as exfat

Are there any (hidden?) files on that drive?
How did you mount it? (Options, output of  "mount"?)
You *did* use https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … fat-utils/ and did not just flag the disk type and then formatted it vfat, did you?

I did use exfat-utils to format it. I mounted it using

mount /dev/sdb/ /mnt

so no extra flags to the command at all.
I did use F3 to check it for errors, but then deleted all the files that it creates. There aren't any hidden files on it.

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: No space left on device (trying to copy data onto microSD)

Why are you formatting the block device directly rather than partitioning it first?

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