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From: Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>
To: Luzbel <putabetis@gmail.com>, xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Aborting XFS copy - reason: Cannot allocate memory
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 16:22:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EF6A08.8000200@thebarn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3022c03a0608251024l5766b9cwa8884fdba881883e@mail.gmail.com>

Luzbel wrote:
> I made a copy of my / partition with xfs_copy -d to a file on a XFS
> filesystem. It worked without complains. Now, when I try to copy back
> the data from the file to the partition I get:
>
> root@slax:/mnt/hda3/luzbel/backup# xfs_copy -d archlinux.partition 
> /dev/hda2
> Error initializing wbuf 0
> Aborting XFS copy - reason:  Cannot allocate memory
> Check logfile "/var/tmp/xfs_copy.log.pn0zp0" for more details
> root@slax:/mnt/hda3/luzbel/backup# cat /var/tmp/xfs_copy.log.pn0zp0
> Error initializing wbuf 0
> Aborting XFS copy - reason:  Cannot allocate memory
> root@slax:/mnt/hda3/luzbel/backup#
>
> Partition /dev/hda2 is unmount and /dev/hda3 is mounted, of course.
>
> You got any idea on why this is happening? If you need me to provide
> extra info, instruct me.
>
> Thank you very much.
>
run xfs_check or xfs_repair -n on your copy just to make sure the file
is good.

maybe run strace or gdb on xfs_copy and figure out exactly how much space
xfs_copy is trying to allocate.

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-25 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-25 17:24 Aborting XFS copy - reason: Cannot allocate memory Luzbel
2006-08-25 21:22 ` Russell Cattelan [this message]

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