[opensuse] usb storage and free space calculation
Hi, Runing SuSE 10. I have a 4G usb storage device which mounts and unmounts fine. If I plug it into a winxp machine then it is reported as having 1G free space. When I plug it into SuSE 10 then it is reported as being full. (NB winxp copied a 500 meg file onto it with no problem). Does anyone have any obvious explanation? TIA F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Wednesday 2007-02-07 at 14:57 -0000, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Runing SuSE 10. I have a 4G usb storage device which mounts and unmounts fine. If I plug it into a winxp machine then it is reported as having 1G free space. When I plug it into SuSE 10 then it is reported as being full. (NB winxp copied a 500 meg file onto it with no problem).
Did you try comandline "df"? Does it have a trash directory, filling space? My guess would be that XP is not counting that space as "used". - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFyfzStTMYHG2NR9URArkLAJ4hkNp5rH1pClSe59fOFj0necCJbgCdHY8K 569gPVPikHuG0DaXNpZyRUc= =K6an -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hi,
The Wednesday 2007-02-07 at 14:57 -0000, Francesco Scaglioni wrote:
Runing SuSE 10. I have a 4G usb storage device which mounts and unmounts fine. If I plug it into a winxp machine then it is reported as having 1G free space. When I plug it into SuSE 10 then it is reported as being full. (NB winxp copied a 500 meg file onto it with no problem).
Did you try comandline "df"?
Does it have a trash directory, filling space? My guess would be that XP is not counting that space as "used".
Command line df on the device as a whole reports size 3.9, used 3.9, df on individual subfolders (one of which I know only has about 20 megs in it) also reports size 3.9, used 3.9. This problem has only arisen in the last 72 hours or so as prior to that all seemed to be working fine. I cannot figure out what has changed on either the linux machine or the device in that time. F -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Having a look at the mounted device (with emacs). All folders are reported as being 16384 in size (irrespective of their true size) although the individual file sizes within are reported correctly. Konqueror's file size view shows the correct figures (ie with 1G free) but an attempt to copy a file across with Konq and it reports "device full". -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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