Does your Kindle auto-mount?
What does the "mount" command tell you?
My mount command shows this:
Code:
$ mount | grep KINDLE
/dev/sdc1 on /media/demo/KINDLE type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,noatime,uid=1000,gid=1000,fmask=0022,dmask=0022,codepage=437,iocharset=utf8,shortname=mixed,utf8,errors=remount-ro)
How much space do you have available on your Kindle? (Note: substitute your userid for mine, "demo")
Code:
$ df -h /media/demo/KINDLE
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdc1 3.1G 309M 2.8G 10% /media/demo/KINDLE
Does your Kindle's directory listing look sane?
Code:
$ ls -al /media/demo/KINDLE
total 832
drwxr-xr-x 20 demo demo 4096 Dec 31 1969 .
drwxr-x---+ 3 root root 60 Oct 23 14:45 ..
drwxr-xr-x 5 demo demo 4096 Sep 5 2020 .active_content_sandbox
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Alarms
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Oct 14 18:25 amazon-cover-bug
drwxr-xr-x 3 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Android
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 .android_secure
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 DCIM
drwxr-xr-x 26 demo demo 4096 Oct 14 18:25 documents
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Download
-rwxr-xr-x 1 demo demo 300 Oct 14 18:21 driveinfo.calibre
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 LOST.DIR
-rwxr-xr-x 1 demo demo 766327 Oct 14 18:25 metadata.calibre
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Movies
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Music
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Notifications
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Podcasts
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Jul 14 2021 Ringtones
drwxr-xr-x 16 demo demo 4096 Oct 30 2020 system
drwxr-xr-x 4 demo demo 4096 Oct 14 15:30 .Trash-1000
drwxr-xr-x 2 demo demo 4096 Mar 14 2018 voice
p.s. - Does your Kindle say "USB Drive Mode" when you plug it into your computer?