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windows reports ubuntu drive is full, but it isn't

Asked by Roger King

I am trying to create a Ubuntu NAS in order to backup videos from my windows box.
My ubuntu box has a 640MB drive for the OS and a 1.5 TB drive for the videos.
When copying video files from Windows 10 to the smb share on ubuntu, I get the error message that there is not enough space "Error: Unknown error. There is not enough space on the disk. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070070".
But looking at that drive in Ubuntu, there is only 8% of it being used.

Any thoughts?

Please note that I am a linux newbie, this being my first build, so you will likely have to be detailed in what steps you want me to take. Thanks in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Using SMB with NTFS is an absolute nightmare. Is there any scope to wipe the drive and use a better file system, like EXT4 ?

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Roger King (kingpin7) said : 		#2

I would prefer to avoid a nightmare!
How do I go about doing what you suggest?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Wipe the unmounted partition and fomat it to Ext4 then restore the data from your backups. Dead easy

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Roger King (kingpin7) said : 		#4

That did the job! Thanks!