Strange `No space left' on usb pendrive

Hi all.

When I try to copy more than 40MB onto an empty new 2GB usb pendrive, I get an
inexplicable `No space left on device' error message:


`11022008699.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008699.jpg'
`11022008700.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg'
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008700.jpg': No space left on device
`11022008701.jpg' -> `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008701.jpg'
cp: cannot create regular file `/mnt/pendrive-carolina2/11022008701.jpg': No space left on device


The command df seems to show that everything is all right:

$ df -lh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 11G 9.2G 912M 92% /
tmpfs 110M 0 110M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev 10M 80K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 110M 0 110M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda1 7.8G 7.3G 541M 94% /mnt/hda1
/dev/hda7 4.9G 1.9G 2.7G 42% /mnt/hda7
/dev/hda8 4.9G 3.4G 1.3G 74% /mnt/hda8
/dev/hda9 7.9G 2.7G 4.9G 36% /mnt/hda9
/dev/sda1 1.9G 40M 1.9G 3% /mnt/pendrive-carolina2


and so parted:

# parted /dev/sda1
GNU Parted 1.7.1
Using /dev/sda1
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) p

Disk /dev/sda1: 2004MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: loop

Number Start End Size File system Flags
1 0.00kB 2004MB 2004MB fat16


Please help understand what the problem may be. Should I format the device?

Thanks for any help
Rodolfo


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