Re: Apparent disagreement between df and cp.

[Chris Davies <chris-usenet@roaima.co.uk>]

peasthope@shaw.ca wrote:
> How can df report MiBs available while cp reports 
> "No space left on device"?

> peter@dalton:~$ df /media/43*
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sdd1               498648     18840    479808   4% /media/4345-A417

It's possible that your device has no inodes remaining. What is the
output of "mount | grep sdd1" and also "df -i /dev/sdd1"?

Chris