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Subject:	Re: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device"
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Dave Korn wrote:
> On 30 May 2006 00:52, David Christensen wrote:
> 
>> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> It's still odd that cygcheck (which is an all-win32-native program)
>>> would report false results like that.
>> I updated Cygwin just now.  The problem still exists.  Attached please find
>> the output of:
>>
>>     2006-05-29 16:44:48 Administrator AT p42800e /backup/p42800e
>>     $ cygcheck -s -v -r > cygcheck-20060529-1644.out
> 
>   No change.  Still the bizarre 1024 MB size report.
>  
>> It's interesting to note that gzip works fine on small files
>> (cygcheck-20060529-1644.out, 16 kB), but barfs on big ones
>> (p42800e-exchange-20060527-230000.bkf, 505,973 MB):
> 
>   Well, that's what you would expect if it really did believe there was only
> 125Gb on the drive and 96% full.  I'm still suspicious of the driver though...


Me too.  My 200GB FireWire/USB2 external drive reports the proper size from
df using the same cygwin and coreutils version.


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