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Old 03-01-2014, 08:41 PM   #419
PeterT
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Unfortunately, that didn't help much. It still takes five minutes to create a 1GB file. I think the problem is that FAt32 doesn't allow sparse file allocation and is creating the full file. And if it did, it probably wouldn't help as from what I can see, file systems that do will report the full file size, but only reduce the free space by what was actually allocated.

And I'm not sure if this is going to work. I am experimenting with a Touch running 2.5.2. When I reduced the free space to 100MB and tried a sync, I got a "not enough space" message. It didn't do the update, but it also didn't sync the books. I'll try some different sizes and the later firmware, but I suspect this is a dead end.
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