4 GB USB flash disk with FAT ok, with ext3 corrupted files

[Miernik]

Miernik <public at miernik.name> wrote:
> And trying to write any more files gives "No space left on device" message,
> while only 8% of the device is used:
> 
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1              4120356    305988   3605064   8% /mnt/sda1

And the device really has the 4 GB:

debian105:~# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
dd: writing to `/dev/sda': No space left on device
8376322+0 records in
8376321+0 records out
4288676352 bytes (4.3 GB) copied, 4145.71 seconds, 1.0 MB/s
debian105:~#

And no error was encountered while doing this dd write.
Neither in dmesg, nor in kern.log. Everything was fine.

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