I have an 8G usb stick (I'm on linux Mint), and I'm trying to copy a 5.4G file into it, but getting 

```
No space left on device

```

The filesize of the copied file before failing is always 3.6G

An output of the mounted stick shows..

```
df -T
/dev/sdc1      ext2       7708584    622604   6694404   9% /media/moo/ba20d7ab-2c46-4f7a-9fb8-baa0ee71e9fe

df -h
/dev/sdc1       7.4G  608M  6.4G   9% /media/moo/ba20d7ab-2c46-4f7a-9fb8-baa0ee71e9fe

du -h --max-depth=1
88K ./.ssh

ls -h myfile 
-rw-r--r-- 1 moo moo 5.4G May 26 09:35 myfile

```

So a 5.4G file, won't seem to go on an 8G usb stick. I thought there wasn't issues with ext2, and it was only problems with fat32 for file sizes and usb sticks ? Would changing the formatting make any difference ?

Edit: Here is an report from tunefs for the drive

```

sudo tune2fs -l /dev/sdd1
```

Filesystem volume name: 
Last mounted on: /media/moo/ba20d7ab-2c46-4f7a-9fb8-baa0ee71e9fe
Filesystem UUID: ba20d7ab-2c46-4f7a-9fb8-baa0ee71e9fe
Filesystem magic number: 0xEF53
Filesystem revision #: 1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features: ext\_attr resize\_inode dir\_index filetype sparse\_super large\_file
Filesystem flags: signed\_directory\_hash 
Default mount options: (none)
Filesystem state: not clean with errors
Errors behavior: Continue
Filesystem OS type: Linux
Inode count: 489600
Block count: 1957884
Reserved block count: 97894
Free blocks: 970072
Free inodes: 489576
First block: 0
Block size: 4096
Fragment size: 4096
Reserved GDT blocks: 477
Blocks per group: 32768
Fragments per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8160
Inode blocks per group: 510
Filesystem created: Mon Mar 2 13:00:18 2009
Last mount time: Tue May 26 12:12:59 2015
Last write time: Tue May 26 12:12:59 2015
Mount count: 102
Maximum mount count: 26
Last checked: Mon Mar 2 13:00:18 2009
Check interval: 15552000 (6 months)
Next check after: Sat Aug 29 14:00:18 2009
Lifetime writes: 12 GB
Reserved blocks uid: 0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid: 0 (group root)
First inode: 11
Inode size: 256
Required extra isize: 28
Desired extra isize: 28
Default directory hash: half\_md4
Directory Hash Seed: 249823e2-d3c4-4f17-947c-3500523479fd
FS Error count: 62
First error time: Tue May 26 09:48:15 2015
First error function: ext4\_mb\_generate\_buddy
First error line #: 757
First error inode #: 0
First error block #: 0
Last error time: Tue May 26 10:35:25 2015
Last error function: ext4\_mb\_generate\_buddy
Last error line #: 757
Last error inode #: 0
Last error block #: 0