On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 08:40:11AM +0200, Guy Baruch wrote: > Hello. > I'm trying to create an internal freedb server on my home machine. > this DB has very large directories with a lot of small entries. > > I have it on a default ext3 partition, and it takes 2.4GB on the HD. > > The reason being that most the files are ~1K files. > > Since I had some space left, I created a 4GB partition and formated it with > mkfs -t ext3 -b 1024 > this went fine. however, when trying to copy the DB to the new > partition, I have recieved > "no space left on device" error repeatedly. > The copying reduces 2GB into ~700MB before it exits, and trying to copy > the remainder > fails on the same error. > > df reports this partition has ~700M occupied, ~3.2GB free, so there > really is space left on device. > > this happens both on redhat 7.3 and 8.0, default kernels. > > any ideas ?
You might went out of inodes. Do 'df -i'. > > -- > -- regards > > +----------------------------------------------------------------------- > + Guy Baruch , Plasma Laboratory, Weizmann Institue. > + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > + phone: 972-8-934-2211 > +----------------------------------------------------------------------- > > They hang the man and flog the woman > That steal the goose from off the common, > But let the greater villain loose > That steals the common from the goose. > > -- English folk poem, circa 1764 > http://bostonreview.mit.edu/BR27.3/bollier.html > > > > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
