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: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > >- -- >The Moon is Waning Gibbous (81% of Full) >My home page is now at http://www.mhcable.com/~chuckh >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) > >iQCVAwUBQJzt7TVdG8M9x9tGAQIqCwQA24ht8xZ3zqZ/i+b8CCOjRy0cYGqIQ4a4 >gyM1jGQ0r5k4L+nlVH67dMDixYZAKHL+BQTNM94n4C6sfqbwXVypWYEow0lKivHX >v3f8SK43Is8VwUQiNExRCtNs4WByPZQkH7fGKwN/qEE/vkUWsK8Y0zq/8bMLEyRs >+S3DhC18iPs= >=Ja0d >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
