new HD install - copying files stops

[maryann551]

Jan 18 15:17:03 MacBookPro-jillb KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received VQ_LOWDISK event (4)
Jan 18 15:17:03 MacBookPro-jillb KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 type 'hfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD', from '/dev/disk0s2', low disk
Jan 18 15:17:15 MacBookPro-jillb /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/MacOS/SDCopy[2214]: writing to output file got error: No space left on device
Jan 18 15:17:15 MacBookPro-jillb /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/MacOS/SDCopy[2214]: error processing data: No space left on device
Jan 18 15:17:16 MacBookPro-jillb SuperDuper![920]: ***ERROR OCCURRED: ditto: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/Users/Shared/SC Info/SC Info.sidd: No space left on device
Jan 18 15:19:44 MacBookPro-jillb quicklookd[2383]: EXCEPTION CPMessageException: (null)
Jan 18 15:23:57 MacBookPro-jillb authexec[2396]: executing /Applications/SuperDuper!.app/Contents/MacOS/SDAgent
Jan 18 15:24:08 MacBookPro-jillb KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (256)
Jan 18 15:24:08 MacBookPro-jillb KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 type 'hfs', mounted on '/Volumes/Macintosh HD', from '/dev/disk0s2', low disk
Jan 18 15:24:16 MacBookPro-jillb kernel[0]: hfs: Initializing the journal (joffset 0x747000 sz 0x1800000)...
Jan 18 15:24:16 MacBookPro-jillb fseventsd[71]: log dir: /Volumes/Macintosh HD/.fseventsd getting new uuid: 53EEEE17-BCEF-4844-A72E-E7C9F9F3BB74
Jan 18 15:24:16 MacBookPro-jillb KernelEventAgent[68]: tid 00000000 received unknown event (256)
Jan 18 15:24:20: --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Jan 18 15:24:20 MacBookPro-jillb fsaclctl[2455]: HFSIOC_SETACLSTATE 1 on /Volumes/Macintosh HD returns 0 errno = 2

the "get info" procedure on the new HD shows it steadily incrementing in size but with no new files being copied to the HD.