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From: | "Dave Korn" <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com> |
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Subject: | RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device" |
Date: | Mon, 29 May 2006 20:50:05 +0100 |
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On 29 May 2006 20:35, David Christensen wrote: > I have a 200 GB drive (E:) that I store ntbackup images on. After making a > backup image, I use Cygwin to gzip the image and md5sum the tarball. A few > days ago, gzip started complaining "No space left on device": > The Windows properties dialog for the drive indicates 125 GB used and 61.3 > GB available. > I also noticed that Cygwin "df" indicates a large negative number for space > used and a small positive number for space available: > > <CVSENV>2006-05-29 12:14:15 Administrator AT p42800e /backup/bin/p42800 > e > $ df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > C:\cygwin\bin 78148160 5025460 73122700 7% /usr/bin > C:\cygwin\lib 78148160 5025460 73122700 7% /usr/lib > C:\cygwin 78148160 5025460 73122700 7% / > c: 78148160 5025460 73122700 7% /cygdrive/c > e: 1048576 -73786976294774971336 52160 101% > /cygdrive/e And cygcheck says > e: hd NTFS 1024Mb 96% CP CS UN PA FC P42800E_E That figure of 125GB full is suspicious. Are you absolutely sure your BIOS can handle disks bigger than the 125GB limit? Or could it be a dodgy AV program interfering with normal operations? cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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