I'm not getting what's wrong with rsync about disk space.
I just bought a new external usb disk of 2TB.
I want to backup my home directory wich is in a dedicated partion on my local disk and made 69GB.
After few minutes of copy the rsync command was blocking on file in my .cache/ dir and when I press Ctrl+C I get No space left on device (28) error. Then I exclude my .cache/ directory and try with some options, and even with sudo :
sudo rsync -avh --progress -T /media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7/sync_dir --delay-updates --exclude '.cache/' /home/nixmind /media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7 but it continues blocking in .config/ as you can see in the attached picture : 
And I still have the same disk space error when I press Ctrl+C (this is just an extract, there are several lines like this):
rsync: mkstemp "/media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7/sync_dir/http_www-beta.tekken-card-tournament.com_0.localstorage.M1sEZ3" failed: No space left on device (28) rsync: mkstemp "/media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7/sync_dir/http_www-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com_0.localstorage.0z54PO" failed: No space left on device (28) rsync: mkstemp "/media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7/sync_dir/http_www-blogger-opensocial.googleusercontent.com_0.localstorage-journal.aCTwHz" failed: No space left on device (28) rsync: [receiver] write error: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: received SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at io.c(513) [receiver=3.1.2] rsync: [sender] write error: Broken pipe (32) █▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Sun Nov 26 03:39:04am /home/nixmind> Here is my file system disk space usage :
█▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Sun Nov 26 03:41:29am /home/nixmind> df -HP Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev tmpfs 828M 11M 818M 2% /run /dev/sda2 97G 7.6G 84G 9% / tmpfs 4.2G 145M 4.0G 4% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.3M 4.1k 5.3M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda3 148G 69G 72G 50% /home /dev/sda5 15G 46M 14G 1% /tmp /dev/sda4 99G 1.2G 93G 2% /var /dev/sda1 2.0G 136k 2.0G 1% /boot/efi /dev/loop0 88M 88M 0 100% /snap/core/3247 /dev/loop2 81M 81M 0 100% /snap/remmina/248 /dev/loop1 88M 88M 0 100% /snap/core/3017 /dev/loop3 88M 88M 0 100% /snap/core/3440 tmpfs 828M 58k 828M 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sdb 2.0T 14G 2.0T 1% /media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7 █▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Sun Nov 26 03:41:29am /home/nixmind> My inode usage :
█▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Sun Nov 26 03:42:35am /home/nixmind> df -Hi Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on udev 1.1M 482 1.1M 1% /dev tmpfs 1.1M 791 1.1M 1% /run /dev/sda2 6.0M 323k 5.7M 6% / tmpfs 1.1M 127 1.1M 1% /dev/shm tmpfs 1.1M 3 1.1M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 1.1M 15 1.1M 1% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda3 9.2M 439k 8.8M 5% /home /dev/sda5 916k 46 916k 1% /tmp /dev/sda4 6.2M 12k 6.1M 1% /var /dev/sda1 0 0 0 - /boot/efi /dev/loop0 14k 14k 0 100% /snap/core/3247 /dev/loop2 23k 23k 0 100% /snap/remmina/248 /dev/loop1 14k 14k 0 100% /snap/core/3017 /dev/loop3 14k 14k 0 100% /snap/core/3440 tmpfs 1.1M 39 1.1M 1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sdb 0 0 0 - /media/nixmind/ADC4-6BD7 █▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Sun Nov 26 03:42:35am /home/nixmind> I searched everywhere, I don't understand this behavior and don't why.
-Sor--sparseflag torsync?lsblk -fm?mount | grep sdbplease, to see what type of filesystem your external disk is using.--sparseflag. I don't understand▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Mon Nov 27 04:45:50pm /home/nixmind> lsblk -fm NAME FSTYPE LABEL UUID MOUNTPOINT NAME SIZE OWNER GROUP MODE sdb vfat LACIE RUG ADC4-6BD7 /media/nix sdb 1.8T root disk brw-rw---- █▓▒░nixmind@mountain-view░▒▓██▓▒░ Mon Nov 27 04:45:50pm /home/nixmind>Should format it to nfts? I need windows compatibility, that's why I don't use linux-bases file system