Hi, On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Vitaly, > > Thanks so much for your reply, with / having 87M free the gunzip was > working fine. But with /cdocs partition even though we have 139M free > it was failing.
You must NOT base only on info from df. You also need info from dumpfs or tunefs: # tune2fs -l /dev/hda1 tune2fs 1.38 (30-Jun-2005) ... Free blocks: 677266 Free inodes: 1226276 ... in this output You can see rest of available files quantity as "free inodes". > > /:lz>df -kh / > Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on > / 963M 819M 87M 91% / > /:lz>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz > compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name > 25437089 85783552 70.3% > omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar > /:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_92_helpfiles.tar.gz > /:lz>echo $? > 0 > /:lz> > > > > Thanks, > Prabha > > -----Original Message----- > From: Vitaly V. Ch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2008 11:40 AM > To: Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha) > Cc: bug-gzip@gnu.org > Subject: Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device> > > Hi, > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha) > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi , >> >> >> >> We are facing problem with gunzip command ,it is reporting no space > left >> on device. >> >> >> >> error >> >> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device >> >> >> >> >> >> Below are the details, >> >> >> >> 1. @/>gzip -V >> >> gzip 1.3.3-patch.1 >> >> (2002-03-08) >> >> Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation >> >> Copyright 1992-1993 Jean-loup Gailly >> >> This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. >> >> You may redistribute copies of this program >> >> under the terms of the GNU General Public License. >> >> For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. >> >> Compilation options: >> >> DIRENT UTIME STDC_HEADERS HAVE_UNISTD_H HAVE_MEMORY_H HAVE_STRING_H >> HAVE_LSTAT >> >> Written by Jean-loup Gailly. >> >> >> >> 2. @/cdocs>gunzip -l omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz >> >> >> >> Result: >> >> compressed uncompressed ratio uncompressed_name >> >> 25826218 85349888 69.7% omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar >> >> >> >> So the free space required to gunzip is 81Mb >> >> >> >> /cdocs:lz>df -kh /cdocs >> >> Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on >> >> /cdocs 610M 416M 139M 75% /cdocs > > It's like wrong. You exceed maximum quantity of files on Your > filesystem. >> >> /cdocs:lz>gunzip omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar.gz >> >> >> >> gunzip: omcran_r31_v0_91_helpfiles.tar: No space left on device >> >> /cdocs:lz> >> >> >> >> Even though we have 139Mb free space we got no space left on device >> error. >> >> >> >> Your quick help on this will be greatly appreciated. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance >> >> >> >> Best regards, >> >> Prabha >> >> > > \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy > \\wbr Vitaly Chernookiy
