Ok, I came across this issue today: If I tell tar to create a compressed archive (tar -czvf) on an nfs mounted partition that lacks sufficient space for the tar file, it processes all listed files (even long after it ran out of space), returns zero and does not print out an error message. It still returns zero if I don't tell it to compress the archive (tar -cvf), but it does, at least, print an error message, "Warning: Cannot close: No space left on device" . However, if this occurrs on a directly connected partition, the expected error messages are seen.
If I run stand alone gzip on a file in the above situation, it does detect that it's run out of space. -- Noah Romer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GPG Key Fingerprint: 944E C2F8 EBEC BCC7 EEA9 9381 1B21 0098 CC8D 45BA
