df reports negative values on Network Shares
Larry Hall
cygwin-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Apr 15 13:32:00 GMT 2004
OK, there are two points to make:
1. Winzip is not the same as 'tar' when it comes to installing Cygwin
packages. If you have problems as a result of choosing to install
Cygwin packages this way, you're on your own. However, I agree with
you that this is not obviously the cause of the problem that started
this thread. But I feel obligated to make the point for clarity sake
(at least for the email archives). And you'll probably want to start
from scratch with your Cygwin installation once this is "all over".
2. The fact that you're getting "disk full" messages from Windows
operations indicates the problem you're experiencing is beyond the
scope of Cygwin. I believe this thought has occurred to you as well.
The only thing I can suggest is the standard disk diagnostics (chkdsk,
etc) to see if you can find the source of the problem. If you can get
Windows to behave properly with these operations, then I think you'll
be less likely to see related problems while using Cygwin.
Larry
At 08:01 AM 4/15/2004, you wrote:
>It gets better.
>
>There is something quite wierd going on here.
>
>I just wanted to upgrade cygwin1.dll so I downloaded cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar.bz2
>from
>ftp://ftp.mirror.ac.uk/sites/sources.redhat.com/pub/cygwin/release/cygwin/
>
>I then went into cygwin (bash), changed to /cygdrive/c/cygwin (where I had
>put the bzip2 file) and did a bunzip2 cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar.bz2
>
>No problem, it ran fine and I was left with a cygwin-1.5.9-1.tar file in
>c:\cygwin (or /cygdrive/c/cygwin depending on your view).
>
>I figured that cygwin would not work too well if I used (cygwin) tar to
>extract the files from within (cygwin) bash.
>
>So I closed the bash prompt (I'm now not running any programs compiled
>against cygwin1.dll of any version) and then brought up c:\cygwin in a
>Windows Explorer window.
>
>
>
>Now it gets wierd...
>
>Next I ran Winzip to extract the files from the tar.
>
>It opened fine and showed me the list of files. When I pressed the
>"Extract" button it started to extract files and (as expected) asked me if
>it was OK to overwrite existing files. I said "yes" and off it went. But,
>guess what, after extracting about 15 files it hit a snag and reported "disk
>full".
>
>Now this means that there is something really fundamental about this area of
>the file system on an NTFS drive that is repeatedly causing disk full errors
>at a fairly low level.
>
>Log from winzip...
>Extracting to "C:\cygwin\"
>
>Use Path: yes Overlay Files: no
>
>Extracting cygserver.conf
>
>Extracting cygcheck.exe
>
>Extracting cygpath.exe
>
>Extracting cygserver-config
>
>Extracting cygwin1.dll
>
>Extracting dumper.exe
>
>Extracting getfacl.exe
>
>Extracting ipcrm.exe
>
>Extracting ipcs.exe
>
>Extracting kill.exe
>
>Extracting mkgroup.exe
>
>Extracting mkpasswd.exe
>
>Extracting mount.exe
>
>Extracting passwd.exe
>
>Extracting ps.exe
>
>Extracting regtool.exe
>
>Extracting setfacl.exe
>
>Extracting ssp.exe
>
>Extracting strace.exe
>
>Extracting umount.exe
>
>Extracting _ansi.h
>
>Can't create output file: C:\cygwin\usr\include\_syslist.h
>
>
>
>
>
>Furthermore, when I had this problem last week, before I joined this mailing
>list, I decided to try changing the permissions on all files in c:\cygwin to
>be owned by my windows 2003 user, just in case. I went into the standard
>Windows Explorer "Security" tab of the folder properties and chose
>"Advanced" then "Owner" and changed it to me. Again it got halfway through
>then reported "disk full". The disk is definitely not full, I have been
>merrily creating huge files elsewhere on the same drive.
>
>I don't think that we should get hung up on the fact that I went an unusual
>way about this rather than installing using the setup.exe installer. I'm
>pretty confident that something similar would have happened had I used
>setup.exe, it would have just taken longer and, anyway, surely what I did is
>all that the installer does anyway?
>
>I posted a cygcheck report on the last posting so I won't waste space by
>re-posting here.
>
>Please do let me know if there's any other diagnostics I can attach to help
>make this easier.
>
>Regards,
>Carl Peto
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Hall" <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com>
>To: "Carl Peto" <carl@bookmanassociates.com>; <cygwin@cygwin.com>
>Cc: <TDemmer@krafteurope.com>
>Sent: Wednesday, April 14, 2004 8:13 PM
>Subject: Re: df reports negative values on Network Shares
>
>
>> At 02:55 PM 4/14/2004, you wrote:
>> >I had exactly the same problem as Thomas...
>> >
>> >$ df -h
>> >Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> >C:\Program Files\Borland\Interbase
>> > 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /opt/interbase
>> >C:\cygwin\usr\X11R6\lib\X11\fonts
>> > 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts
>> >C:\cygwin\bin 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/bin
>> >C:\cygwin\lib 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /usr/lib
>> >C:\cygwin 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /
>> >c: 1.0G -64Z 37M 101% /cygdrive/c
>> >e: 38G 19G 19G 49% /cygdrive/e
>> >m: 13G 4.1G 9.3G 31% /cygdrive/m
>> >p: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/p
>> >q: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/q
>> >r: 13G 4.1G 9.3G 31% /cygdrive/r
>> >s: 13G 5.4G 7.9G 40% /cygdrive/s
>> >
>> >carl@bill /cygdrive/p/Releases/BPM
>> >
>> >...only in my case it happened on the C drive so it has crippled cygwin
>as
>> >virtually nothing can be written without error messages like "out of disk
>> >space" coming up.
>> >
>> >This suggests to me that it's more low-level than just a df problem,
>> >possibly some interaction with Windows 2003 Server.
>> >
>> >
>> >Here is the cygcheck -s -v -r...
>>
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Cygwin DLL version info:
>> > DLL version: 1.5.1
>> > DLL epoch: 19
>> > DLL bad signal mask: 19005
>> >
>>
>> Upgrade to the latest and try again.
>>
>>
>> --
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>>
>
>
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