[Samba] Weird issue - STATUS_DISK_FULL

[Ciaran Scolard]

Thanks David.

It's a brand new array but I've double checked and there's not much space used and plenty free.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Disseldorp [mailto:ddiss at suse.de] 
Sent: 27 March 2015 16:11
To: Ciaran Scolard
Cc: 'samba at lists.samba.org'
Subject: Re: [Samba] Weird issue - STATUS_DISK_FULL

Hi Ciaran,

On Fri, 27 Mar 2015 15:35:12 +0000, Ciaran Scolard wrote:

> I've a share on a btrfs volume that is reporting that there isn't enough disk space for a backup.
> Which is odd as the file is about 300GB in size and df  -h reports 5TB free.
> Any ideas?

Free space tracking in Btrfs (and other CoW filesystems) is generally complex. I'd suggest you take a look at the Btrfs documentation at:
https://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/FAQ#Help.21_I_ran_out_of_disk_space.21

Cheers, David