https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13317
--- Comment #6 from Rui DeSousa <rui.deso...@icloud.com> --- (In reply to Rui DeSousa from comment #5) It looks like no error is returned and result is a sparse file. I think a sync() would be required otherwise the file is truncated on close to meet the quota. [postgres@hades ~]$ df -h arch Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on hydra/home/postgres/arch 1.0G 1.0G 316K 100% /usr/home/postgres/arch [postgres@hades ~]$ rsync -av --inplace 000000010000005E00000017 arch/000000010000005E00000017 sending incremental file list 000000010000005E00000017 sent 67,125,370 bytes received 35 bytes 8,950,054.00 bytes/sec total size is 67,108,864 speedup is 1.00 [postgres@hades ~]$ ls -lh arch/000000010000005E00000017 -rw------- 1 postgres postgres 64M Mar 5 16:02 arch/000000010000005E00000017 [postgres@hades ~]$ du -h arch/000000010000005E00000017 362K arch/000000010000005E00000017 Here's example of dd exceeding the quota; however, it ends up with a truncated file instead of it being sparse. [postgres@hades ~/arch]$ dd if=/dev/random of=test.dmp bs=256k ^C3080+0 records in 2+6156 records out 807403520 bytes transferred in 10.843296 secs (74461081 bytes/sec) [postgres@hades ~/arch]$ ls -lh test.dmp -rw-r--r-- 1 postgres postgres 384K Mar 5 18:05 test.dmp [postgres@hades ~/arch]$ du -h test.dmp 393K test.dmp -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html