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Bug 48467 - refuse to link large file when there is little free space
refuse to link large file when there is little free space
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: File and Folder Operations
1.0.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
: future
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-05 20:29 UTC by Trevor Spiteri
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0

Attachments
Fix for this bug. (729 bytes, patch)
2003-09-23 17:07 UTC, James Cape 		none Details | Review

Description Trevor Spiteri 2001-09-10 01:18:45 UTC 
When I try to create a link to a large file (e.g. 30Mb) onto a filesystem with
less free space than the file length, Nautilus says it does not have enough
space (a link should take no space).

* REPRODUCIBLE: Always

* STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

Fill up a filesystem (leaving only little space).
Right-button drag a large file onto a directory in the full filesystem.
Choose link.


* ACTUAL RESULTS: 

 Nautilus complains saying "There is not enough space on the destination."

* EXPECTED RESULTS: 

  Nautilus should have created a symlink in the directory.

This is on version 1.0.4.



------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:18 -------

The original owner (pavel@eazel.com) of this bug does not have an account here.
Reassigning to the default owner of the component, nautilus-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
Comment 1 John Fleck 2002-01-05 04:06:41 UTC 
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
Comment 2 Christian Fredrik Kalager Schaller 2002-05-11 15:46:56 UTC 
If this is still a bug in GNOME 2 Nautilus it seems to me to be a very
important one, which should be fixed in the GNOME2 timespan. CC it to
louie as I has no opportunity to test this here at work.
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2002-05-13 04:19:22 UTC 
So not major :) Unfortunately, I can't test this ATM either... don't
have any partitions on this box I can do that to.
Comment 4 Trevor Spiteri 2002-05-29 14:42:16 UTC 
You do not need to have such a partition, make one:
with root:
dd if=/dev/zero of=afile count=2048 # 1Mb file
/sbin/mkfs -t ext2 afile
mkdir adir
mount -o loop afile adir
chmod a+w adir

Then any file > 1Mb qualifies for the steps in the original bug report.
Comment 5 Dennis Björklund 2003-01-05 19:39:47 UTC 
I just ran in to this bug on nautilus 2.0.6 (rh8). So at least until
that version the bug is still there.
Comment 6 Egle K. 2003-08-10 20:16:17 UTC 
Why this important bug isn't fixed such long time ?
This bug still exist in 2.2.4, but was reported 2 years before in
version 1.0.4 !!!
Now simple users can't make symlinks to bigger files :(((
I think priority and/or severity of this bug should be increased.
Please, fix this bug ASAP.
Comment 7 Egle K. 2003-09-23 10:58:06 UTC 
It seems, that nautilus developers doesn't really work with nautilus
(maybe they use command line or mc for most file operations?)

This bug still exist in nautilus 2.4 :(
Comment 8 James Cape 2003-09-23 17:07:59 UTC 
Created attachment 20216 [details] [review]
Fix for this bug.
Comment 9 Alexander Larsson 2003-09-23 17:16:06 UTC 
ok to commit on HEAD and gnome-2-4
Comment 10 Alexander Larsson 2003-09-23 17:31:12 UTC 
fixed in gnome-vfs cvs.