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I put a 64GB Kingston USB key in one of the USB ports on the Pi.

It has been recognized and mounted automatically and I am able to write files, but why, in the MEDIA directory, has KINGSTON has been split between KINGSTON and KINGSTON_, one with 16 GB and the other 48 GB?

When the first is full what will happen, as my code mentions only" /media/KINGSTON"?

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  • If you could run mount and sudo fdisk -l and post the output to pastebin.net that would be useful.
    – Fred
    Commented Apr 5, 2014 at 9:10

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Probably it is due to filesystem type limitation when automounted. If the key is empty so wiping all the data inside is not a problem (thanks for the comment RPi Awesomeness), you can create an ext4 filesystem with

sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdNN

where NN is the device name. You must first dismount the already mounted drives with either:

umount /dev/sdNN

or 

umount /directory mount point

for each one.

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    This is a very useful answer, but just as a heads-up to people who aren't as computer/Linux-savy, formatting (making a filesystem as suggested here) will wipe your data. Just a heads up, if you're doing this, make sure to back up any data you don't want to lose. Great job on the answer.
    – RPiAwesomeness
    Commented Apr 4, 2014 at 13:20
  • Also it will be /dev/sdNN. (/dev/hdNN is for legacy IDE drivers only since the kernel moved to the (S)ATA modules by default.)
    – Fred
    Commented Apr 5, 2014 at 9:10

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