[nzlug] Copying files.....

[David Hawke]

Nevyn wrote:
> 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.
>>>       
You need to sort this one out first - this is a network issue. Are you
getting driver issues - anything obvious in the logs ???

David H

>> 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
>> --
>> See my blog at
>> http://snap-happy3216.blogspot.com
>>     
>
> 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.
>
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