Re: csplit reports No space left on device

[✓ Paul Courbis de Bridiers de Villemor]

Hi

Did you check if you had enough free inodes on the partition ?
df -i

Regarfs

Le mer. 17 août 2022 à 18:56, Rodolfo Aramayo via GNU coreutils General
Discussion <coreutils@gnu.org> a écrit :

> Dear Coreutils Maintainers,
>
> First, thank you for your work. I use coreutils daily both for my research
> and teaching. It is a great set of tools.
>
> Second, I have recently run into an "No space left on device" error when
> attempting to csplit a 200GB xml file.
>
> The command I am using is:
>
> csplit --quiet --elide-empty-files --digits=12 --prefix=zz_ 00_founder_file
> /"<entry id="/ {*};
>
> I should say that this command works like a charm with 2GB and with 20GB
> test files, but when scaled to the target file (200GB), csplit reports the
> error and stops there, despite the fact that I have plenty of disk space
> and memory available on the machine.
>
> I should also say that I am running this process on an Ubuntu machine
> (default ulimit parameters):
>
> Linux digitalbiology01 5.15.0-46-generic #49~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Thu Aug 4
> 19:15:44 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>
> I am using: csplit (GNU coreutils) 8.30
>
> Any advice/comments on how to proceed will be gratefully appreciated
>
> Rodolfo
>
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