[Bug 1242940] Re: Bogus "no space left on device" error message

[Serge Hallyn]

Thanks for reporting this bug.

rsync likely is simply relaying a ENOSPC it got from the kernel.  This
can happen for a few reasons.  If you have a 200Gb fat32 filesystem then
you are likely hitting a maximum number of file entries.  Are you able
to manually create new files, i.e.

sudo touch uploads/helloworld.txt

If so, then please run the rsync command under strace

   strace -f -ostrace.out rsync -avz
root at xxxxx.net:/var/www/vhosts/xxxxx.net/httpdocs/uploads .

and attach the resulting strace.out file here.

** Changed in: rsync (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Incomplete

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Title:
  Bogus "no space left on device" error message

Status in “rsync” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  I'm trying to rsync some files from a remote server to a local mounted
  USB disk (formatted as FAT32)

  I get nonsense error messages:

  teo at xxx1:/media/teo/WD_DATA/XXXXX/httpdocs$ rsync -avz root at xxxxx.net:/var/www/vhosts/xxxxx.net/httpdocs/uploads .
  root at xxxxx.net's password: 
  receiving incremental file list
  uploads/
  uploads/Nxx_m10175_a11546_image.jpg
  rsync: rename "/media/teo/WD_DATA/XXXXX/httpdocs/uploads/.Xxx_m10175_a11546_image.jpg.A8eUmm" -> "uploads/Xxx_m10175_a11546_image.jpg": No space left on device (28)
  uploads/Xxx_m10189_a11571_image.jpg
  rsync: rename "/media/teo/WD_DATA/XXXXX/httpdocs/uploads/.Xxx_m10189_a11571_image.jpg.j9d5SE" -> "uploads/Xxx_m10189_a11571_image.jpg": No space left on device (28)
  uploads/Xxx_m10189_a11572_image.jpg
  rsync: rename "/media/teo/WD_DATA/XXXXX/httpdocs/uploads/.Xxx_m10189_a11572_image.jpg.VLdxdY" -> "uploads/Xxx_m10189_a11572_image.jpg": No space left on device (28)
  uploads/Xxx_m10196_a11582_image.jpg
  rsync: rename "/media/teo/WD_DATA/XXXXX/httpdocs/uploads/.Xxx_m10196_a11582_image.jpg.l9dNKi" -> "uploads/Xxx_m10196_a11582_image.jpg": No space left on device (28)
  (......)

  It says there's no space left on the device, but there are more than
  200GB which is far more than the total space needed.

  I suspect the real problem is that with the filenames, which are
  perhaps not supported (too long?) on a FAT32 filesystem.

  But if that is the case, then the error message is completely wrong.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
  Package: rsync 3.0.9-4
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-31.46-generic 3.8.13.8
  Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Tue Oct 22 00:32:19 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-11 (10 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: rsync
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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