Hi Did you check if you had enough free inodes on the partition ? df -i
Regarfs Le mer. 17 août 2022 à 18:56, Rodolfo Aramayo via GNU coreutils General Discussion <coreutils@gnu.org> a écrit : > Dear Coreutils Maintainers, > > First, thank you for your work. I use coreutils daily both for my research > and teaching. It is a great set of tools. > > Second, I have recently run into an "No space left on device" error when > attempting to csplit a 200GB xml file. > > The command I am using is: > > csplit --quiet --elide-empty-files --digits=12 --prefix=zz_ 00_founder_file > /"<entry id="/ {*}; > > I should say that this command works like a charm with 2GB and with 20GB > test files, but when scaled to the target file (200GB), csplit reports the > error and stops there, despite the fact that I have plenty of disk space > and memory available on the machine. > > I should also say that I am running this process on an Ubuntu machine > (default ulimit parameters): > > Linux digitalbiology01 5.15.0-46-generic #49~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 4 > 19:15:44 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > > I am using: csplit (GNU coreutils) 8.30 > > Any advice/comments on how to proceed will be gratefully appreciated > > Rodolfo > > -- > Dr. Rodolfo Aramayo, PhD > Faculty of Biology and Genetics > Department of Biology, Texas A&M University > PeerJ > PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences > <https://peerj.com/> Academic > Editor peerj.com/RodolfoAramayo > -- -- Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor