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. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
