Error and Partitioning Question

[offdahook84]

Hey, how's it going. I'm running 10.4.1 on my 1.5GHz Al Powerbook and I have a 200 GB (186.3 GB to be exact) external backup drive with 4 partitions: Clone, with a previous Panther clone; Sandbox, for safety clone; Backup, with a Tiger clone that I'm trying to smart update; Data, for other stuff. All the partitions on the backup drive are 46.5 GB. I'm getting a result too large error when I tried to smart update the Backup partition.

I searched the forums and it looks like the cause of the error is that I ran out of space, is that correct? The size of my installation is 36.7 GB, I would think I still would have enough space. So, I'll still have to re-partition it looks like, huh? Just for a confirmation, re-partioning will erase the data on all the partitions, correct? Any help would be appreciated.

Here's part of the log file:

|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42a62e42cfaeb
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42a630181143a
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42b83ca5cf0ed
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42b847b7b1e2f
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42c328729cb28
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42c5cc8da02e9
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/42d1abb91b7ac
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/com.apple.speech.synthesis.globals
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/4276f1b126a74
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/tmp/4276f22f1e229
|10:33:13 PM|Info| Ignoring /private/var/vm
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /.vol
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/Backup
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/Clone
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/Data
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/OmniOutliner
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/Sandbox
|11:25:11 PM|Info| Ignoring /Volumes/Macintosh HD
|11:36:30 PM|Info| WARNING: Caught I/O exception(16): Resource busy
|11:36:30 PM|Info| WARNING: Source: /.hotfiles.btree, lstat(): 0
|11:36:30 PM|Info| WARNING: Target: /Volumes/Backup/.hotfiles.btree, lstat(): 0
|11:36:30 PM|Info| Logging attributes for item: /.hotfiles.btree of type: 8
|11:36:30 PM|Info| Error copying /.hotfiles.btree to /Volumes/Backup/.hotfiles.btree of type 8
|11:36:30 PM|Error| SVUclone: Error: Couldn't create
|11:36:30 PM|Error| : Result too large
|11:36:30 PM|Error| SVUclone: Error copying /.hotfiles.btree to /Volumes/Backup/.hotfiles.btree of type 8
|11:36:30 PM|Error| : Result too large
|11:36:30 PM|Error| ****FAILED****: result=256 errno=1 (Operation not permitted)