cooper2009 Posted March 18, 2009 Share Posted March 18, 2009 Hi there,strange issue on XP, SP2: NTFS, truecrypt container (file) is full, 0% left. Attached via USB. Partition is filled with sparse files. It is having a normal drive letter, chkdsk says filesystem is OK, and states 2.7GB free.Problem: I am unable to copy/move big files from that partition, to the local disk with XP on it. Message 'No space left on device', same with Explorer and a NC clone (SpeedCommander). This is wrong, the target is big enough. ONLY after moving smaller files from that partition, it is possible to move the bigger files from that partition. What is the problem? Why this wrong message? Could truecrypt be the problem? I posted this in the Truecrypt forum as well. BTW, after several other various issues with XP (such as wrong formatting fs-type 6 instead of 7/NTFS, BSOD when attaching these wrong partitions to the PC, another BSOD after log on without these partitions) I finally will move to another OS. Away from Windows.cooper2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DigeratiPrime Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 What version of TrueCrypt are you using to mount the container file? What is the filesystem of the container and what is the filesystem of the target partition? Process Monitor http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb896645.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Thanks for your reply.All NTFS, TrueCrypt is latest, v6.1a.I do know the ProcessExplorer, but it won't help much if this the filesystem driver is updating the meta-data of the partition (and it can't).Will try the next time the drive is full. Also mounting the full partition as read-only might help. But why should the OS modify the meta data when ~50% is copied??cooper2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uid0 Posted March 19, 2009 Share Posted March 19, 2009 Are you using ntfs compression? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper2009 Posted March 19, 2009 Author Share Posted March 19, 2009 Nope, no compression. Just sparse files. So it is always unclear what the occupation of the partition really is-depending on the program used (even if the explorer sees 0bytes free, chkdsk saw ~2.7G free yesterday; now this is the same, both say ~4.7GB free).I was also able copy small files to the partition, even if explorer reported 0 bytes free... this is real transparency...cooper2009. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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