cp/rsync problem

[Chuck Hallenbeck]

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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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