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and subject line Bug#354875: /bin/cp directory full vs. disk full messages
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Package: coreutils
Version: 5.93-5
Severity: normal
File: /bin/cp
Trying to copy a less than 1MB file to a half full 16MB flash card, I get:
# cp xutils_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb /mnt/usb/pqi
cp: cannot create regular file
`/mnt/usb/pqi/xutils_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb': No space left on device
# df /mnt/usb/pqi
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 15968 9072 6896 57% /mnt/usb/pqi
# sync
# cp xutils_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb /mnt/usb/pqi
cp: cannot create regular file
`/mnt/usb/pqi/xutils_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb': No space left on device
# mkdir /mnt/usb/pqi/dir
# cp xutils_6.9.0.dfsg.1-4_i386.deb /mnt/usb/pqi/dir
#
Well if the problem is that the flash card's root FAT file table was
full, then there should be a better message!
Separate "directory full" from "disk full" when giving messages to the
user, else he might never guess the solution.
Maybe historically for UNIX this would never happen, so the messages
were never improved.
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On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:44:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
Well if the problem is that the flash card's root FAT file table was
full, then there should be a better message!
This is beyond the scope of the cp command, the message comes from the
kernel. I suspect that there's no interest in adding a specific error
code for a particular fault condition for fat filesystems to the kernel,
but you could ask there if you wish.
--
Michael Stone
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