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General Forums => General Discussion => Topic started by: markedman on November 12, 2004, 04:40:59 pm

Title: moving files from sd to cf card on zaurus
Post by: markedman on November 12, 2004, 04:40:59 pm

when i try moving files from my 512 sd card to my 4 gig micro drive i get an error stating that I dont have enough internal memory is there any other way of moving the files around on the zauri or no

Title: moving files from sd to cf card on zaurus
Post by: offroadgeek on November 12, 2004, 04:56:58 pm

how are you moving the files?  what zaurus?  what rom?

I've had no problems moving several hundered megs from my CF to SD (and vice versa).  I think I did cp -r from aterm (pdaxrom) to move my stuff....  I actually didn't technically 'move' it as I didn't use mv, I copied it all over then did a du to make sure it all made it

Title: moving files from sd to cf card on zaurus
Post by: nilch on November 12, 2004, 05:20:47 pm

If you try to copy it over thru GUI (Cut - paste) from CF to SD (or vice-versa) you get that problem of memory.

Instead try opening up console and doing a move command
mv <source path>  < destination path>

like this

mv /mnt/cf/wherever/*  /mnt/card/wherever

that works fine always. The GUI method fails on large copies because it first copies files from CF to temp on ROM and then moves to SD. Hence i temp space is small, it fails with the said error message.