IOException when no disk space left

Good time of day, everyone!
In my program, I have to copy files of a quite substantial size from one media onto another. Since the free space is limited, I need to catch the case when it gets no longer available. The total size of files is unknown and cannot be computed beforehand (random element), so checking availability before copying each file would barely make sense.
What I need is to catch the case when it ultimately runs out of free disk space while copying. What exception is that? The program throws some unreadable gibberish (likely because of my locale):
java.io.IOException: ═хфюёЄрЄюўэю ьхёЄр эр фшёъх
Another thing that worries me is that it takes quite a long time before this exception is thrown. Maybe there's a better solution?
Googling gave nothing so far :(
Thanks in advance!

SqueezyMo wrote:
Good time of day, everyone!
In my program, I have to copy files of a quite substantial size from one media onto another. Since the free space is limited, I need to catch the case when it gets no longer available. The total size of files is unknown and cannot be computed beforehand (random element), so checking availability before copying each file would barely make sense. You're burning CDR's or DVDR's, right? The common approach to "making stuff fit" is to pre-build a file collection... to burned when the user "commits" the selection (by pressing a burn button). This allows the user to organise the content to "best fit" accross multiple media... most burners now automatically workout "best fit" based purely on size (I guess using some sort of [backpack algorithm|http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/Backpack+problem]).
Overall the trick is remove the "randomness" by delaying the burn process.
This doesn't really apply to (reliably) rewritable media... Note that DVD-RW's are notoriously NOT reliably rewritable... the probability of corruption seems to nearly-double on each overwrite after the first dozen (or so)... I gave up using them for backups, and went back to DVD-R's... (now I use an external HDD).
What I need is to catch the case when it ultimately runs out of free disk space while copying. What exception is that? The program throws some unreadable gibberish (likely because of my locale):
java.io.IOException: ═хфюёЄрЄюўэю ьхёЄр эр фшёъхTry changing your locale to English (temporarily), so you can read that error message... and also try writing it (the exceotion) to a UTF-8 encoded file... I suspect the console is responsible for scrambling the high-order UTF characters.
Another thing that worries me is that it takes quite a long time before this exception is thrown. Yes... it would, it would take time to fill the destination media, wouldn't it... so do your size check before you start copying anything. Also worth noting that most users prefer an "upfront, all or nothing" paradigm most of the time... giving them confidence that when they hit the "go" button it will eventually work... nothing worse than a slow kettle that needs watching.
Maybe there's a better solution? Yes, several... It's just time to bight the bullet and get serious about this, or just use one of the plethora of libraries ;-)
Googling gave nothing so far :( Thanks in advance!Yep, google is excellent for "named problems" of all sorts (from aircraft maintenance scheduling to fish recipes)... not so good for problems such as this which have (AFAIK) yet to be ascribed a common name.
Cheers. Keith.
PS: Listen to Chicon... I should have read his post before writing this... Que sera sera.

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