cp/rsync problem

[Thomas Stivers]

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On May 08 2004 10:14 AM, 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

The only thing I can think of is that rsync is using temporary files
somewhere on /dev/hda1. This doesn't make sense though if cp does the
same thing. Perhaps your commands aren't actually doing what you think.
A script of the problem might be helpful. I.E.

script copystuff.script
cp stuff newstuff
rsync stuff newstuff
exit

then send us the script. Sounds very like a temp file issue happening
somewhere though.

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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