On Thursday 29 July 2004 23:57 chuck gelm's cat walking on the keyboard wrote: > Luca Ferrari wrote: > > On Wednesday 28 July 2004 22:17 chuck gelm's cat walking on the keyboard > > > > wrote: > >>Luca Ferrari wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>I was doing a backup of a NFS partition (about 300 MB) using zip but I > >>>got the error: > >>>Zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename) > >>>I've tried to find some information but I was unable. Since I've used > >>> zip to compress SMB partitions over 1 GB I don't believe that it can be > >>> a "size" problem. I've tried to specify the temporary directory with > >>> the -b flag, but nothing changed. On my disk I've got about 11 GB of > >>> free space, so have you any idea or suggestion about this problem? > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>Luca > >> > >>Hi, Luca: > >> > >> Show us exactly what you did (the exact command line). > >>Show us the free space of your 'cwd' and your temporary directory. > >>Show us the size of the partition you are trying to backup. > >> > >>Perhaps you could run 'watch -d df' on another console and see > >>what directory is getting 'Out of memory' or > >> your could run 'free -s 9' on another console to see if you > >> are running out of RAM memory. > > > > Here's the command line I use: > > > > /usr/bin/zip -r -u -y -b /tmp/backup /mnt/disco2//letizia.zip * > > > > zip error: Out of memory (allocating temp filename) > > > > and the memory as reported by free before and during the zipping: > > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 256624 253180 3444 0 40412 85796 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 126972 129652 > > Swap: 1020088 16 1020072 > > > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 256624 254096 2528 0 34604 92080 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 127412 129212 > > Swap: 1020088 16 1020072 > > > > > > Any idea? > > > > Luca > > Yes. > Is '/tmp/backup' a directory or a regular file? > Ops! It was a file. I've changed it to a directory and granted write permissions and now it seems to work. Thanks a lot. Luca -- Luca Ferrari, fluca1978@xxxxxxxxxxx - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
