I'm still struggling to install NetBSD on my SanDisk compact flash card 
and while I've made a valiant effort (if I may say so) I've run up 
against an odd error that I cannot get past.

While untarring the base.tgz set I get a message that there is no room 
left on the compact flash card. A quick check using 'df' reveals that 
the card only has used 45% of it's space. This does not make sense at 
all. What circumstances would cause this discrepancy? It's a 128Mb 
compact flash card, so I should have enough space to fit kern, etc, and 
base, yet even a few files into base and the process craps out. I've 
also tried untarring the files to a msdos partition (this is being done 
on a x86 laptop) and trying to 'cp' the files over, but I get the same 
error.

What could be the cause of this?

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