[TriLUG] Failure Copying Large Amounts of Data

Ron Kelley rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
Fri Apr 16 14:20:05 EDT 2010


try "swapon -s"




On Apr 16, 2010, at 2:19 PM, Steve Litt wrote:

> Good question. How would I find the size of my swap drive? See this:
> 
> slitt at mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$ grep swap /etc/fstab
> # swap was on /dev/sda1 during installation
> UUID=984ca3a1-fbe2-41d1-addb-1c095c691a65 none            swap    sw              
> 0       0
> slitt at mydesk:/d/at/books/mental$
> 
> SteveT
> 
> 
> On Friday 16 April 2010 13:14:42 Glenn Starling wrote:
>> Do you have sufficient swap file space for the copy program to use as it
>> does it's work?
>> 
>> -- Glenn
>> 
>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 1:10 PM, John Broome <jbroome at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 12:22, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
>>> 
>>> wrote:
>>>> On Friday 16 April 2010 09:29:50 boyle at laue.chem.ncsu.edu wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a problem copying > 90 GB of data between file systems.  Here
>>>>> is the context:
>>>> 
>>>> This doesn't answer your question, but perhaps might give you some new
>>> 
>>> ideas.
>>> 
>>>> I use incremental rsync backups:
>>> 
>>> So does the original poster:
>>>>> sending incremental file list
>>>>> x08223.tar.gz
>>>>> x08229.tar.gz
>>>>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08223.tar.gz.hWl4tB" failed: No
>>> 
>>> space left on device (28)
>>> 
>>>>> rsync: mkstemp "/media/backup2/shultz/.x08229.tar.gz.SRyRYE" failed: No
>>> 
>>> space left on device (28)
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