X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device" Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 02:08:53 +0100 Message-ID: <028501c68385$9e2b88a0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <00f301c6837a$d1176d20$1e10a8c0@holgerdanske.local> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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@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... 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/