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Article #13552Re: Help - Kermit eats HD20 space
From: Jim Budler
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1986 05:55
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1986 05:55
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In article <511@uwmacc.UUCP> dan@uwmacc.UUCP (dan jatnieks) writes:
> That's the first part of the problem. The second part is that that
>problem file was only one in a group that I was transfering using the
>wildcard "kermit s *.hqx" on the Unix machine that I was transfering
>from. So before the "hang-up" occured, there had already been about 700K
>in 10 files transfered. When I reboot the mac, there is indeed 700k less
>space on my HD20, but none of the files that transfered show up at all.
>I assume Kermit doesn't finish closing them until the entire transfer
>is complete or some such thing.
I have encountered this problem with other terminal emulators, which I assume
do not issue a fflush(), just a close() on the files. On the mac, this may
leave the in memory disk directory in disagreement with the on disk
directory. Result, any crash before a fflush() is issued may leave the
disk directory at it's original state, but may have allocated allocation
blocks.
A workaround: command-shift-1 or 2 the disk between file transfers to
force such a flush.
--
Jim Budler
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Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ll-xn!cit-vax!amdahl!amdcad!jimb From: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Help - Kermit eats HD20 space Message-ID: <13821@amdcad.UUCP> Date: Thu, 20-Nov-86 00:55:11 EST Article-I.D.: amdcad.13821 Posted: Thu Nov 20 00:55:11 1986 Date-Received: Thu, 20-Nov-86 08:19:15 EST References: <511@uwmacc.UUCP> Reply-To: jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) Organization: Advanced Micro Devices, Sunnyvale, California Lines: 28 Keywords: Kermit, Bad filename, Lost disk space