[nzlug] Copying files.....

[Steve Holdoway]

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Steve

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 21:51:27 +1300
David Hawke <David.Hawke at ppfort.net> wrote:

> 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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