On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 12:47 -0500, Chris Knadle wrote: > On Sunday 30 December 2007, Wayne C wrote: > > OK a little off topic but I am working in Ubuntu so....... > > > > Trying to load .mp3's to a SanDisk sd card. Says I have 1.91 GB of free > > space. I cropped my favorite mp3's to 1.90 mb (302 files....and if you > > think that was easy....) So I start transferring them and after moving > > 140 files (.901 GB) it stops and says the disk is full. Yet, when I look > > at the sd card it says it has 1.00 GB of space remaining. I've tried on > > two different media cards (other was a Kingston). I also tried on Win XP > > and Win2K. All the same. What am I doing wrong? > > Some questions: > 1. What is the stated capacity of these SD cards? > 2. What filesystem do these cards have on them? > 3. What are you plugging the SD cards into? > > In Ubuntu, you might have a look at the output of 'dmesg' -- there's a > chance that the Linux kernel has an error message relating to hitting the end > of free space. Also, try looking at the output of "sudo fdisk -l" with an SD > card inserted; see what capacity is reported there. > > -- Chris
Hi Chris, They are two GB cards, They have the FAT16 filesystem on them and I'm using a sandisk imagemate card reader. After I posted my first message I got wondering if it had anything to do with the number of files rather then the size. I split the 302 files into three sub directories and all is well. Now I'm wondering if my gps can read a fat 32 file system although I guess it's not really required. I've been trying to find out if the Nuvi 750 will support a 4 or 8 GB SDHC card. If it does then it would have to use Fat32. Has anyone tried playing an .ogg file on a garmin nuvi? _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Dec 5 - Open Source Show and Tell Jan 2 - TBD Feb 6 - DBUS Mar 5 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux
