cp/rsync problem

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well, not too many about 6100 or so
remember its a completely blank partition
and whats filling up is hda1 which isn't involved at all accept to hold the 
mount points

At 10:25 AM 5/8/2004, you wrote:
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>Just a wild guess here:
>
>Two reasons a partition might be out of space. One is the actual
>space is used up. The other is you are out of inodes. When you
>format the ext2 partition you choose the size of inodes. The
>smaller they are, the more of them you have. Are you copying a
>large number of files? Perhaps you have exhausted the number of
>inodes on the target rather than the actual space.
>
>Chuck
>
>
>On Sat, 8 May 2004, Jack Mendez wrote:
>
> >       doing a very large copy under linux 29gb or so, and when i get to 
> about
> > 3gb, it complains that the device has no space left.
> > what i have is a hard disk mounted on /mnt/hd2
> > this is a 40gb freshly format ext2 partition
> > on mnt/source
> > are the 29gb of files i would like to transfer from /mnt/source to /mnt/hd2
> > however after about 3gb of transfers cp reports that there is no space left
> > on device, if i look at /dev/hda1 it is in fact full
> > why would this occur when i am transferring files from two completely
> > different sources
> > /mnt/source is actually an smbfs mount
> > another thing to note rsync also dies at about this point as well
> >
> > thanks
> >
> >
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