X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <447BABDD.8000900@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 29 May 2006 22:20:13 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051223 Fedora/1.5-0.2.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5 Mnenhy/0.7.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 200 GB drive has room but gzip indicates "No space left on device" References: <028501c68385$9e2b88a0$a501a8c0 AT CAM DOT ARTIMI DOT COM> In-Reply-To: <028501c68385$9e2b88a0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com 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. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/