5g ipod drive claims to be full

[kevinp]

I have a 60GB 5g ipod with the current build of Rockbox. About 30GB are used. However, when I boot into the original Apple firmware, then reboot again into Rockbox, it appears that the drive is full. Indeed, when I look at the drive via USB connection, it says 30-something-GB used, 0KB free. Trying to copy files to the drive fails. Does anyone know what's happening, and if there's some way to fix it without reformatting the drive and copying 30GB of data back on again? (I've done that several times already, and it's getting a little old)

I tried running dosfsck on it in Linux, but that didn't fix it.

[Yotto]

If the drive shows up as 30 gig when it's plugged into your computer, then it's a 30 gig drive, or a 60 gig drive with only half of its space partitioned.  I have no clue how either of those things could have happened, but I don't think Rockbox is at fault.

You didn't say so specifically, but do you have any indication anywhere (other than the box and maybe printed on the back) that the drive is actually 60 gig?  Like did you have more than 30 gig of stuff on it at one point?  Does iTunes show it as 60 gig? Does iTunes even do that?  I have no clue as my iPod's never been tainted by iTunes

[kevinp]

It shows up as 55.7GB in Windows, in Linux, and in Rockbox. 60GB is printed on the back. It is a 60GB ipod. That is not the problem. And it is definitely partitioned correctly. I did the restore thing in Windows iTunes, and when it got screwed up I reformatted the data partition to fat32 in Linux, and that fixed it, but I obviously had to replace the data. But that partition has always showed up as 55.7GB.

I think for some reason the Apple firmware is screwing up the allocation table or however that works. I'm just confused as to why mine would do this when nobody else seems to be having this problem. Perhaps it's a problem with the newest Apple firmware. I did just do the restore feature in Win iTunes yesterday.

EDIT: It doesn't show up as a 30GB drive. I shows up as a 55.7GB drive with 30GB used and 0KB free. Deleting files makes the 0KB free increase, but presumably not above the 30GB that are on the drive.

[Yotto]

That's whack.  To me, it sounds like a problem with the drive and if I had to guess I'd say the problem is software, not hardware.

Investigate the possiblity of (backing up first if you need to, of course) wiping the drive and repartitioning/reformatting it from scratch via Windows.  I don't know the particulars or pitfalls.  The only problem I can think of is that the Apple firmware may get broken, but as I've never done this, and wouldn't care if it broke the Apple firmware, I've never really looked into it.

[mor]

tor ON disk usage on ITUNES  

[GodEater]

Someone else reported a similar problem in this thread in the hardware forum (where this thread should be really).

Have a read through it.

[kevinp]

Ahh, thank you very much, GodEater.

...and I figure the hardware itself is fine, it's the file system that is having troubles... I wouldn't exactly call that hardware, but I see how someone might.