I am struggling with this free space issue on my USB
sudo f3probe --destructive --time-ops /dev/sdd
shows
Good news: The device `/dev/sdd' is the real thing
Device geometry:
*Usable* size: 14.65 GB (30728832 blocks)
Announced size: 14.65 GB (30728832 blocks)
Module: 16.00 GB (2^34 Bytes)
Approximate cache size: 0.00 Byte (0 blocks), need-reset=no
Physical block size: 512.00 Byte (2^9 Bytes)
Probe time: 4'36"
Operation: total time / count = avg time
Read: 547.7ms / 4814 = 113us
Write: 4'33" / 4192321 = 65us
On the other side df -h output
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdd 1,9G 1,4G 442M 77% /media/miki/05DB-E2AB
file -s /dev/sdd
/dev/sdd: DOS/MBR boot sector, code offset 0x58+2, OEM-ID "mkfs.fat", sectors/cluster 8, Media descriptor 0xf8, sectors/track 32, heads 64, sectors 3815136 (volumes > 32 MB), FAT (32 bit), sectors/FAT 3720, reserved 0x1, serial number 0x5dbe2ab, unlabeled
And
mount | grep /media/miki/05DB-E2AB
/dev/sdd on /media/miki/05DB-E2AB type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,showexec,utf8,flush,errors=remount-ro,uhelper=udisks2)
How to explain this? How can I know the free space?
Filesystem type: msdosmeans (FAT32? vfat? NTFS?). In general one can resize the filesystem to fit the device. What is the output offile -s /dev/sdd? What is the output ofmount | grep /media/miki/05DB-E2AB? – Kamil Maciorowski Dec 3 at 7:45umount,wipefs -a,mkfs.fatandmount/dev/sdd– Tom Yan Dec 3 at 8:44fatresize, although in my Debian it seems buggy. What the above comment advises may be the best way. Copy the data to another filesystem first because the new filesystem will be created empty. – Kamil Maciorowski Dec 3 at 9:01