Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Keith McKenzie
On 29 June 2012 23:41, Doug dmcgarr...@optonline.net wrote: On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Domto...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. /snip/ I've looked at this thread a number of

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-30 Thread Chris Davies
Keith McKenzie km3...@gmail.com wrote: It was about cp reporting 'no space left on device', whilst df said that there was space available. The OS reported No space left on device (or more accurately, errno 28: ENOSPC) to cp. Rather than trying to guess whether this really meant what it said or

Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread peasthope
From: Dom to...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. Nice analysis! On FAT12 (and FAT16, iirc) there is a limit of 512 files in the root directory. Other directories don't have this limit. I found additional

Re: Re (3): Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

2012-06-29 Thread Doug
On 06/29/2012 05:29 PM, peasth...@shaw.ca wrote: From: Domto...@rpdom.net Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:02:45 +0100 Ok, I've just tested this. It is a FAT filesystem limitation. /snip/ I've looked at this thread a number of times, but I was then and still am puzzled. According to Linux in a