Hello, I got xfs and mc with these versions: # mcedit -V GNU Midnight Commander 4.6.1 # mkfs.xfs -V mkfs.xfs version 2.9.4 # uname -r 2.6.22-2-amd64
And I've tried to reproduce the bug, with no luck: zion:/tmp# dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/test count=40000 40000+0 records in 40000+0 records out 20480000 bytes (20 MB) copied, 0.269495 seconds, 76.0 MB/s zion:/tmp# mkfs.xfs test meta-data=test isize=256 agcount=1, agsize=4096 blks = sectsz=512 attr=0 data = bsize=4096 blocks=4096, imaxpct=25 = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks, unwritten=1 naming =version 2 bsize=4096 log =internal log bsize=4096 blocks=1200, version=1 = sectsz=512 sunit=0 blks, lazy-count=0 realtime =none extsz=4096 blocks=0, rtextents=0 zion:/tmp# mkdir testmnt zion:/tmp# mount -o loop test testmnt zion:/tmp# cd testmnt zion:/tmp/testmnt# echo "test string" >important_file zion:/tmp/testmnt# dd if=/dev/zero of=b bs=1 dd: writing `b': No space left on device 11751425+0 records in 11751424+0 records out 11751424 bytes (12 MB) copied, 18.8108 seconds, 625 kB/s zion:/tmp/testmnt# df -k . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /tmp/test 11584 11544 40 100% /tmp/testmnt zion:/tmp/testmnt# mcedit important_file zion:/tmp/testmnt# ls -l important_file -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27 2008-01-13 19:28 important_file zion:/tmp/testmnt# cat important_file test string 123 123 123 So, I've tried to pad the file with some stuff generated by this script: zion:/tmp# python -c 'for i in range(1,1024): print "%s 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789" % i' | wc -c 45951 zion:/tmp# python -c 'for i in range(1,1024): print "%s 0123456789012345678901234567890123456789" % i' > /tmp/stuff The I've included /tmp/stuff into /tmp/testmnt/important_file and saving, but I recieved "Cannot save file" but the file is saved until possible: zion:/tmp/testmnt# ls -l total 11500 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 11751424 2008-01-13 19:23 b -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24576 2008-01-13 19:49 important_file zion:/tmp/testmnt# df -k . Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /tmp/test 11584 11564 20 100% /tmp/testmnt I hope this can help. If you need additional help/info, just ask. Regards, Sandro -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, Morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]