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From: brucee@runxtsa.runx.oz.au (Bruce Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: file sizes
Message-ID: <2159@runxtsa.runx.oz.au>
Date: 11 Aug 90 19:37:20 GMT
References: <3077.26c290ee@cc.curtin.edu.au>
Organization: RUNX Unix Timeshare.  Sydney, Australia.
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In article <3077.26c290ee@cc.curtin.edu.au> sschnellm@cc.curtin.edu.au writes:
>compressed all directories. Now my commands.tar.Z file is 1.24 Mbytes
>big. 
>I have made a file system of size 1450 blocks on a 1.44Mbyte disk, but
>when I mount it and say
>
>      cp commands.tar.Z /mnt3
>
>I get the following error message :
>
>cp : error 0

There are only 1440 blocks on a 1.44M disk.

There is a (probably unique) bug in cp which would cause "error 0". It
doesn't allow for partial writes.

However, I don't see how a partial write could be caused by the above
setup. In Minix, the only partial writes that I can remember occur when
writing past the end of a disk device. For these, the bug would only
cause cp to report an error one step too early.
-- 
Bruce Evans
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