Hi, I run into this bizarre problem trying to copy a large amount of files to the last partition on my disk. The disk is 10GB and the last partition occupies the last 1GB of the disk (minus a few extra spare sectors.)
I did an fschk on the partition and no problem is reported. I've got a compressed zip file with about 30000 files I want to uncompress. I know that the uncompressed size will end up filling the 1GB partition to about 90%. If I unzip the file located on the same partition I get an error message (can't create the file on device) for a few dozens files then the copy will stop. At that point the disk is full at about 87%. When I unzip the files on a previous partition, I don't have any problem. When I then copy the files I just uncompressed from the previous partition to the last partition, I get a message for the last few hundred files stating that there is no space left on device. The space is 84% used and there is about 161MB free. If I persist doing this, I will eventually be able to unpack. The workaround seems to be to cp -r from previous partition to the last which will not succeed, then rm -rf the dir just created then unzipping to the last partition directly. At that point, the drive is full at 90% which seems to be correct. My question is : is there a threshold on the last partition that would cause the fs to report errors even if the partition is not completely full? Is there a limit that the last partition should occupy? If someone could give me a hint on how to track this problem, so I can gather more info about this problem, that would be great. Thanks for your help in advance, Laurent
