Re: df reports negative values on Network Shares

["Carl Peto" <carl at bookmanassociates dot com>]

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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