rsync from remote host "failed: No space left on device (28)" even with --inplace

[Adam Funk]

On 2024-11-08, Jeffrey Walton wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 10:31 AM Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to copy a lot of data from a high-performance computing
>> server to a USB hard drive.
>>
>> $ ssh remotehost
>> # successful
>> # then in another terminal:
>> $ rsync -e ssh -a --info=progress2 --inplace \
>>     remotehost:/path/to/the_stuff/  /media/adam/CWB_DATA/the_stuff/
>>
>> It keeps failing with "failed: No space left on device (28)" even
>> though the USB drive has plenty of space:
>
> Does the rsync fail immediately, or does it fail after performing some
> of the copies?

After some of the copies.


>> $ df -h .
>> Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb1       466G   24G  442G   6% /media/adam/CWB_DATA
>>
>> $ df -ih .
>> Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
>> /dev/sdb1           0     0     0     - /media/adam/CWB_DATA
>>
>> I added the --inplace option after googling the error message, but
>> it's still producing the same error. I assume the inode 0 count is
>> because the drive is formatted in fat32.
>>
>> Is the drive format the problem?
>>
>> Any other suggestions?
>
> I'm thinking out loud... Is the media server running Samba, and is
> Samba blocking the copy for some reason?

The server I'm trying to copy from runs
some kind of GNU/Linux; I'm sure there's no Samba involved.