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Hello everybody
I recently bought a 8GB USB flash disk. I created a fat32 filesystem (using mkfs.vfat) on the whole drive (/dev/sdb1).
# mkfs.vfat -F 32 -n katana /dev/sdc1
df -h shows approximately 8GB available, but when I try to extract an archive on the disk, the kernel raises No space left on device exceptions at about 812MB of occupation, and df stills show plenty of space available.
I tried with an other (brand new) usb drive (not the same model), and I got exactly the same error, st 812MB.
I tried to reformat using different softwares, I even tried with windows (through a vm). I just don't know what to do...
Thanks by advance
Last edited by swordofpain (2010-12-04 23:41:15)
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Check this thread [1], maybe your problem is the same.
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Alot of times the flash drive is partitioned wierdly and one part is set to resemble a cd drive. It's been quite a while since I had to fight with that, but once you get rid of the cd emulation software, it works like a charm.
It's set to emulate a cd so that windows autoplay for cds/dvds can be used.
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Alot of times the flash drive is partitioned wierdly and one part is set to resemble a cd drive. It's been quite a while since I had to fight with that, but once you get rid of the cd emulation software, it works like a charm.
It's set to emulate a cd so that windows autoplay for cds/dvds can be used.
And how do I do that? using dd and /dev/zero on the main device file (/dev/sdc, according to my first post)?
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FAT32 has limit of 4GB per file. You can format usbstick to NTFS.
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Filesizes are under 4GB. And I need the usb drive to be formatted in FAT32 in order to be bootable. (I'm trying to install the katana toolkit)
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