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

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 11:02 AM Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

Maybe something like this will help: <https://serverfault.com/a/1022978>.

Jeff