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Subject: RE: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device"
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 02:08:53 +0100
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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...


    cheers,
      DaveK
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