iPod: Operating System or iTunes reports the disk is full, but it does not look full

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iPod: Operating System or iTunes reports the disk is full, but it does not look full

This document explains why iTunes or the operating system may indicate that the iPod disk is full when it doesn't look full. There is no available space on the iPod hard disk when it is used as an external FireWire or USB hard drive, yet the disk looks like it is empty or only has a few files on it. iTunes cannot copy any songs to iPod even though it says the music library is less then the iPod drive capacity.

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close(2)							System Calls Manual							  close(2)

NAME

       close - close a file descriptor

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

       closes  the file descriptor indicated by fildes.  fildes is a file descriptor obtained from a or system call.  All associated file segments
       which have been locked by this process with the function are released (i.e., unlocked).

RETURN VALUE

       Upon successful completion, returns a value of 0; otherwise, it returns -1 and sets to indicate the error.

ERRORS

       fails if the any of following conditions are encountered:

	      [EBADF]	     fildes is not a valid open file descriptor.

	      [EINTR]	     An attempt to close a slow device or connection or file with pending aio requests was interrupted by  a  signal.  The
			     file descriptor still points to an open device or connection or file.

	      [ENOSPC]	     Not enough space on the file system.  This error can occur when closing a file on an NFS file system.  [When a system
			     call is executed on a local file system and if a new buffer needs to be allocated to hold the  data,  the	buffer	is
			     mapped  onto the disk at that time.  A full disk is detected at this time and returns an error.  When the system call
			     is executed on an NFS file system, the new buffer is allocated without communicating with the NFS server  to  see	if
			     there  is space for the buffer (to improve NFS performance).  It is only when the buffer is written to the server (at
			     file close or the buffer is full) that the disk-full condition is detected.]

SEE ALSO

       creat(2), dup(2), exec(2), fcntl(2), lockf(2), open(2), pipe(2), thread_safety(5).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

																	  close(2)

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