[nzlug] Copying files.....

[Nevyn]

On 1/13/08, Glenn Enright <glenn.enright at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 13/01/2008, Nevyn <nevynh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Over the last couple of days I've been noticing some really strange
> > networking issues between my Linux box and my windows box. I'm trying
> > to copy a file which is all of 600MB big onto a samba share. I've also
> > tried rsync and scp as well as a normal copy and nothing seems to
> > work.
> >
> > It's got a "connection reset by peer" message and seems to come up
> > with the error every 2 or 3 seconds or so. So I could put it into a
> > loop to just continue copying the file, but I'd rather like to know
> > why the error is happening in the first place.
>
> Are you copying to a nearly full drive?  That is fat32? If so it
> sounds really similar to symptoms I had on my PC. Even if there is
> adequate space on the partition, fat32 apparently requires a
> *percentage* (about 15??? google knows) of the drive to be free. Its a
> real pain. If this is the case you will find that even copying local
> files onto that partition will have similar 'problems'.
>
> Rgards, Glenn
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Nope.. that's not it. Copying to a ext3 partition which has recently
had a clean up (around 50% free). Thanks for the attempt though.