running out of disk space when cp -Rp

[hal8000]

Hi all:

I am back to updating a live CD I created a while back. I want to start from scratch with the latest KNOPPIX. I am following the http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/Knoppix_Remastering_Howto. In step 2 when performing the

cp -Rp /KNOPPIX/* /mnt/hda1/knx/source/KNOPPIX

command I constantly get

file name too long

errors and after quite some time I am getting

no space left on device

it hasn't even finished copying the

/dev

folder and I am using an empty 8 Gig partition to copy the source files to.

I searched the forums and haven't come across anybody experiencing something similar. Wondering if anybody had an idea.

Alternatively I tried tried to loop mount the KNOPPIX compressed file. I tried it manually and with

extract_compressed_fs

I am always getting errors like this

[root (knx)]# extract_compressed_fs KNOPPIX > knoppix.img
230037291 blocks of size 3977919309. Preamble:
hsqsÅ+
lseek to 16136247860849191167: Invalid argument

Thanks in advance

AR

I have sucessfully followed the wiki howto also and remastered a Knoppix 5.11 CD.

As you are updating a Live CD you created a while ago, I wonder if some of the filesnames on your disk were not truncated to the
Rockridge or Juliet standard. Another way of proving this is by downloading the knoppix 5.11 image and copying all files names again.

AS for disk space, I presume you have an empty hard drive as you are copying to hda1.