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Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device> |
Date: |
Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:08:07 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.101 (Gnus v5.10.10) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) |
"Biradar, Prabhulingamma (Prabha)" <address@hidden> writes:
> write(4, " 4 4 _ 2 S e n d e r ".., 24576) Err#28 ENOSPC
This indicates that gzip ran out of disk space, and a write() system
call failed. gzip does not check for disk space in advance; it merely
checks as it writes. So I don't see any incorrect behavior here.
- Re: problem with gunzip <No space left on device>,
Paul Eggert <=