1 Gigabyte SD card "full" after 467 MB

[Mark Whittington]

On Fri, 2006-02-10 at 12:25 +0900, Dave M G wrote:
> >>Um, it's not really a 1Gb card? Take it back...
> >>    
> >>
> If that were the case, then I don't think Ubuntu would think there was 
> extra space. When I click "properties", it shows about 469 remaining MB 
> of free space.
> 
> >>I suppose it could be some weird formatting thing - are you placing very
> >>many very small files on it? It could be the blocking factor or
> >>something.
> >>    
> >>
> An issue like this seems logical to me. But can I diagnose it precisely?
> 
> >
> >Ahhh that reminds me, I remember seeing "!gig flip" cards.. they had
> >512mb on each side and to get the other 512 mb you had to take it out
> >and turn it over.. you don't have one of those?
> >  
> >
> The SD card has a notch in one corner preventing it from being inserted 
> the "wrong" way around. A "flip" card would have to have a corner notch 
> on both sides in order to be able to go in the card reader. This card 
> has only one notch on one side.
> 
> --
> Dave M G
> 

Maybe limit of total number of files per dir. According to M$ the limits
are:

FAT32
Maximum number of files and subfolders within a single folder = 65,534
(The use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of
available files and subfolders within a folder.)

Files per volume = 4,177,920

FAT16
Maximum number of files and subfolders within a single folder = 512 (The
use of long file names can significantly reduce the number of available
files and subfolders within a folder.)

Files per volume = Approximately 65,536