Odd effect going on, whenever I attached an external hard drive via USB to the raspberry pi, very often it acts as though there is no space left on the external drive (0 bytes available). External hard drives are formatted as FAT32.
If I use SAMBA from a windows machine it usually works (displays correct space free etc, and allows copying files to the external drive), however any access from a mac, linux or various applications within windows when they attempt to automatically move files to the rpi's external drive return an exception 'Not enough space available' (actually returning 0 bytes available on the drive, even though there is clearly 300+GB).
Seems to me there's a simply thing I'm missing here - probably something to do with the FAT32 thing, but I thought that'd be fine? Don't reeeally want to change to ext4 as then I won't be able to see it from windows at all.
Re: External Hard Drives appear as having no space
Has this REALLY never happened to anyone else? It does the same on my friend's distro too.
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Re: External Hard Drives appear as having no space
plug drive in
sudo fdisk -l
how is it mounted ?
df -h
sudo fdisk -l
how is it mounted ?
df -h
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Re: External Hard Drives appear as having no space
If you're accessing it over the network the file system is not relevant. I have not used FAT32 for years, but I have used NTFS and ext4 formatted USB drives to my RasPis without any problems accessing them from Windows.Don't reeeally want to change to ext4 as then I won't be able to see it from windows at all.
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