Fwd: strange strange problem! (please help!!)

[David Hoffman]

Copying my reply to the list....


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From: David Hoffman <dhoffman2004 at gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 22 Jan 2005 13:10:42 -0600
Subject: Re: strange strange problem! (please help!!)
To: Globe Trotter <itsme_410 at yahoo.com>


On Sat, 22 Jan 2005 11:06:35 -0800 (PST), Globe Trotter
<itsme_410 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > What do you get when you run the following command (BEFORE you start the
> > copy):
> > df -k /usr/local
>
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used  Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda3             40313996    138976   38127136   1% /usr/local
>

OK, well that certainly confirms that you have 38G+ free space on /usr/local.

Is it possible that you might have some symlinks in your "me"
directory and when you are copying files you might be actually copying
more than the 21Gb you think are there?