I hope this is the right place to get some help as I believe this to be an issue with Samba or more likely my configuration / mount that is used by it.
Short background story: I have a raspberry pi which I use as a media server with Jellyfin. Now of course the space on the SD is limited, hence I wanted to advance the available space by using an old external HDD I have.
The Jellyfin drive is under /media/files/ [ls -l on /media/files] (https://i.stack.imgur.com/mUUom.png)
There are files already present in Movies and TV Shows. Now I added a new folder “Externe” and mounted the external HDD to it. Permission are set to 777 -R, so it should have no issues with that. When I look drives I do see it as such also:
[df -l; showing the 2TB are basically all free (1% used)] (https://i.stack.imgur.com/uW4za.png)
Now to my SMB config. The path is set to /media/files, hence I’m assuming that the “Externe” folder will also be taken into account.
[SMB.conf] (https://i.stack.imgur.com/0XK60.png)
I can see the folder from my PC / access it and also for example create a folder or copy a small file, like a pic:
[SMB share open on client PC] (https://i.stack.imgur.com/AFmTp.png)
But when I now try to copy a larger junk of movies as I intend to do, then I do get the error that there not enough space and some 3,X GBs missing. The files to be copied there are a total of 47,X GBs, so it should be no problem at all.
Copy fails with 47GBs to what is supposed to be nearly 2TB of free space.
Any idea what I f’ed up to have this error? It makes no sense to me as the drive is there, it’s mounted, I can reach it and even copy / transfer / create files but has only an issue with size, that I cannot explain.
Also: since I saw a few posts online about having problems with exfat, I changed the drive to ext4 with no luck. Same as above. Really out of ideas here …
Thanks in advance.
Kind regards
