USB key with 7.5 GByte but no space left on device after 4 GByte written

Matthias Apitz guru at unixarea.de
Thu Mar 5 01:32:12 PST 2009


El día Thursday, March 05, 2009 a las 01:09:27AM -0800, Charles Oppermann escribió:

> 
> > > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 Mar  5
> > > 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: <Ut165 USB2FlashStorage 0.00> Removable
> > > Direct Access SCSI-2 device Mar  5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0:
> > > 40.000MB/s transfers
> > > Mar  5 08:48:33 rebelion kernel: da0: 7712MB (15794176 512 byte sectors:
> > > 255H 63S/T 983C) Mar  5 08:48:35 rebelion kernel: GEOM_LABEL: Label for
> > > provider da0 is msdosfs/pen disk.
> > > # mount -t msdosfs /dev/da0 /mnt
> >
> > msdosfs bug or strangely made msdos filesystem on that pendrive.
> > if you use it FreeBSD only, clear first 4kB with dd, then do newfs and
> > use as UFS
> > if not - use newfs_msdos
> 
> Wouldn't it be /dev/da0s1?  Is it possible that the drive hasn't been 
> 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

???

Thx

	matthias
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