... not having a headache.

In other news, my Nokia N810 Internet Tablet finally arrived. It looks better in real life than in pictures.

Strange quirk: the 2 gigs of extra internal flash memory (formatted as FAT32) are mostly unused (according to df) while at the same time being three quarters full (according to du):

/media/mmc2 $ df -h .
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p1            1.9G      8.0k      1.9G   0% /media/mmc2
/media/mmc2 $ du -sh .
1.5G    .

Ouch. Time to run fsck.vfat on it. Or perhaps just reformat, to avoid the other famous bug (attempt to access beyond end of device), which, let me check, yes, I also see:

[584959.868000] usb-storage: device scan complete
[584959.868000] scsi 3:0:0:0: Direct-Access     Nokia    N810              031 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[584959.868000] scsi 3:0:0:1: Direct-Access     Nokia    N810              031 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[584959.872000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 3932160 512-byte hardware sectors (2013 MB)
[584959.872000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[584959.872000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[584959.872000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[584959.872000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] 3932160 512-byte hardware sectors (2013 MB)
[584959.876000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
[584959.876000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 0f 00 00 00
[584959.876000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
[584959.876000]  sdb: sdb1
[584959.880000]  sdb: p1 exceeds device capacity
[584959.884000] sd 3:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[584959.884000] sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
[584959.884000] sd 3:0:0:1: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[584959.884000] sd 3:0:0:1: Attached scsi generic sg3 type 0
[584960.240000] attempt to access beyond end of device
[584960.240000] sdb: rw=0, want=4013848, limit=3932160
[584960.240000] Buffer I/O error on device sdb1, logical block 501728

It would be interesting to know how this came to be. Do some N810s have more internal memory than others? Or was the filesystem image made too big for all of them by accident?