I have a Dos fat16 partition mounted automatically at bootup /dev/hda6 /mnt/windows vfat iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850,rw 0 0
I use this drive as a storage drive as the machine is dual boot Windows NT 4 (NTFS), and Mandrake 8.1 (EXT3) because fat is read-writeable from both OSes. I have been using this fine for months, without problems. Suddenly after upgrading a newer kernel from rpm kernel-2.4.8-34 old kernel was kernel-2.4.8-26 I reinstalled this kernel and have both to chose from at startup. I started noticing that sometimes I would try and save a file to the drive or create a directory and it would say mkdir: cannot create directory `/mnt/windows/fotos': No space left on device df -m gives me /dev/hda6 2094 1614 481 78% /mnt/windows df -h /dev/hda6 2.0G 1.6G 481M 78% /mnt/windows If I run the mount command I get /dev/hda6 on /mnt/windows type vfat (rw,iocharset=iso8859-1,codepage=850) doing a umount /mnt/windows, and then mount /mnt/windows doesn't fix the problem. I am wondering if there is a maximum amount of files that the file system driver can read on fat16 drives ? I'm not sure how to do file count on the drive to see how many files I have. How do you do this from the command-line ? Nautilus reports 4331 items, totalling 1.4 GB the default directory has 166 files 103.8MB Any ideas ? Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
