Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 15:26:12 +0100 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> Cc: Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written Message-ID: <3a142e750903050626p43c6c96ao79cecddef70fed99@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090305141217.GA11424@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20090305081407.GA2242@rebelion.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903050935130.74279@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <200903050109.27668.chuckop@gmail.com> <20090305093208.GA4342@rebelion.Sisis.de> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0903051048220.74507@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20090305141217.GA11424@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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On 3/5/09, Matthias Apitz <guru@unixarea.de> wrote: > El dia Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 10:48:52AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar > escribio: > >> >>formatted properly? >> > >> >I did a 'ls -l /dev/da*' after key insert and there was only /dev/da0; >> >maybe I should do >> > >> ># newfs_msdos /dev/da0 >> > >> >??? >> >> to be sure do >> >> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 >> >> before to clean anything from beginning, if any mess is there. > > to end this threat, I did: > > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/da0 bs=64k count=1 > # newfs_msdos /dev/da0 > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt > # time cat file file file > /mnt/big > cat: stdout: File too large > 0.276u 19.421s 14:36.63 2.2% 11+1180k 33887+65536io 0pf+0w > > # df -kh /mnt > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/da0 7.5G 4.0G 3.5G 53% /mnt > > i.e. it writes the maximal file size of 4G in FAT32 and 3.5G are left as > free; > > the write speed is > 4294963200 in 14:36.63 minutes, i.e. 4902926 per sec; should'nt you first try to measure with dd(1) how da0 is big before we start blaming msdosfs: # dd if=/dev/da0 of=/dev/null bs=1m ? -- Paul
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