Bug#289393: "No space left on device." Which device?

[Marc Haber <mh+debian-bugs@zugschlus.de>]

Package: rdiff-backup
Version: 0.13.4-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

rdiff-backup puts hundreds of megabytes of temporary files on /tmp,
happily overflowing it, and then throws a unhandled exception after
outputting "No space left on device".

(1)   If a device overflows, rdiff-backup should have the courtesy of
      telling the user _which_ device suffered the overflow.
(2)   Unhandled exceptions are bad.

Greetings
Marc

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-vash
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages rdiff-backup depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  librsync1                   0.9.7-1      Library which implements the rsync
ii  python2.3                   2.3.4-18     An interactive high-level object-o
ii  rdiff                       0.9.7-1      Binary diff tool for signature-bas

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