Linux – How to Fix Intermittent “No Space Left on Device” Errors During mv

• Ubuntu 14.04 on a desktop
• Source Drive: /dev/sda1: 5TB ext4 single
  drive volume
• Target Volume: /dev/mapper/archive-lvarchive: raid6 (mdadm) 18TB volume with lvm
  partition and ext4

There are roughly 15 million files to move, and some may be duplicates (I do not want to overwrite duplicates).

Command used (from source directory) was:

ls -U |xargs -i -t mv -n {} /mnt/archive/targetDir/{}

This has been going on for a few days as expected, but I am getting the error in increasing frequency. When it started the target drive was about 70% full, now its about 90%. It used to be about 1/200 of the moves would state and error, now its about 1/5. None of the files are over 100Mb, most are around 100k

Some info:

$ df -h
Filesystem                     Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3                      155G  5.5G  142G   4% /
none                           4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                           3.9G  4.0K  3.9G   1% /dev
tmpfs                          797M  2.9M  794M   1% /run
none                           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
none                           3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /run/shm
none                           100M     0  100M   0% /run/user
/dev/sdb1                       19G   78M   18G   1% /boot
/dev/mapper/archive-lvarchive   18T   15T  1.8T  90% /mnt/archive
/dev/sda1                      4.6T  1.1T  3.3T  25% /mnt/tmp

$ df -i
Filesystem                       Inodes    IUsed     IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb3                      10297344   222248  10075096    3% /
none                            1019711        4   1019707    1% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev                            1016768      500   1016268    1% /dev
tmpfs                           1019711     1022   1018689    1% /run
none                            1019711        5   1019706    1% /run/lock
none                            1019711        1   1019710    1% /run/shm
none                            1019711        2   1019709    1% /run/user
/dev/sdb1                       4940000      582   4939418    1% /boot
/dev/mapper/archive-lvarchive 289966080 44899541 245066539   16% /mnt/archive
/dev/sda1                     152621056  5391544 147229512    4% /mnt/tmp

Here's my output:

mv -n 747265521.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/747265521.pdf 
mv -n 61078318.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/61078318.pdf 
mv -n 709099107.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/709099107.pdf 
mv -n 75286077.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/75286077.pdf 
mv: cannot create regular file ‘/mnt/archive/targetDir/75286077.pdf’: No space left on device
mv -n 796522548.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/796522548.pdf 
mv: cannot create regular file ‘/mnt/archive/targetDir/796522548.pdf’: No space left on device
mv -n 685163563.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/685163563.pdf 
mv -n 701433025.pdf /mnt/archive/targetDir/701433025.pd

I've found LOTS of postings on this error, but the prognosis doesn't fit. Such issues as "your drive is actually full" or "you've run out of inodes" or even "your /boot volume is full". Mostly, though, they deal with 3rd party software causing an issue because of how it handles the files, and they are all constant, meaning EVERY move fails.

Thanks.

EDIT:
here is a sample failed and succeeded file:

FAILED (still on source drive)

ls -lhs 702637545.pdf
16K -rw-rw-r-- 1 myUser myUser 16K Jul 24 20:52 702637545.pdf

SUCCEEDED (On target volume)

ls -lhs /mnt/archive/targetDir/704886680.pdf
104K -rw-rw-r-- 1 myUser myUser 103K Jul 25 01:22 /mnt/archive/targetDir/704886680.pdf

Also, while not all files fail, a file which fails will ALWAYS fail. If I retry it over and over it is consistent.

EDIT: Some additional commands per request by @mjturner

$ ls -ld /mnt/archive/targetDir
drwxrwxr-x 2 myUser myUser 1064583168 Aug 10 05:07 /mnt/archive/targetDir

$ tune2fs -l /dev/mapper/archive-lvarchive
tune2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014)
Filesystem volume name:   <none>
Last mounted on:          /mnt/archive
Filesystem UUID:          af7e7b38-f12a-498b-b127-0ccd29459376
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent 64bit flex_bg sparse_super huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash 
Default mount options:    user_xattr acl
Filesystem state:         clean
Errors behavior:          Continue
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Inode count:              289966080
Block count:              4639456256
Reserved block count:     231972812
Free blocks:              1274786115
Free inodes:              256343444
First block:              0
Block size:               4096
Fragment size:            4096
Group descriptor size:    64
Blocks per group:         32768
Fragments per group:      32768
Inodes per group:         2048
Inode blocks per group:   128
RAID stride:              128
RAID stripe width:        512
Flex block group size:    16
Filesystem created:       Thu Jun 25 12:05:12 2015
Last mount time:          Mon Aug  3 18:49:29 2015
Last write time:          Mon Aug  3 18:49:29 2015
Mount count:              8
Maximum mount count:      -1
Last checked:             Thu Jun 25 12:05:12 2015
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Lifetime writes:          24 GB
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
First inode:              11
Inode size:           256
Required extra isize:     28
Desired extra isize:      28
Journal inode:            8
Default directory hash:   half_md4
Directory Hash Seed:      3ea3edc4-7638-45cd-8db8-36ab3669e868
Journal backup:           inode blocks

$ tune2fs -l /dev/sda1
tune2fs 1.42.10 (18-May-2014)
Filesystem volume name:   <none>
Last mounted on:          /mnt/tmp
Filesystem UUID:          10df1bea-64fc-468e-8ea0-10f3a4cb9a79
Filesystem magic number:  0xEF53
Filesystem revision #:    1 (dynamic)
Filesystem features:      has_journal ext_attr resize_inode dir_index filetype needs_recovery extent flex_bg sparse_super large_file huge_file uninit_bg dir_nlink extra_isize
Filesystem flags:         signed_directory_hash 
Default mount options:    user_xattr acl
Filesystem state:         clean
Errors behavior:          Continue
Filesystem OS type:       Linux
Inode count:              152621056
Block count:              1220942336
Reserved block count:     61047116
Free blocks:              367343926
Free inodes:              135953194
First block:              0
Block size:               4096
Fragment size:            4096
Reserved GDT blocks:      732
Blocks per group:         32768
Fragments per group:      32768
Inodes per group:         4096
Inode blocks per group:   256
Flex block group size:    16
Filesystem created:       Thu Jul 23 13:54:13 2015
Last mount time:          Tue Aug  4 04:35:06 2015
Last write time:          Tue Aug  4 04:35:06 2015
Mount count:              3
Maximum mount count:      -1
Last checked:             Thu Jul 23 13:54:13 2015
Check interval:           0 (<none>)
Lifetime writes:          150 MB
Reserved blocks uid:      0 (user root)
Reserved blocks gid:      0 (group root)
First inode:              11
Inode size:           256
Required extra isize:     28
Desired extra isize:      28
Journal inode:            8
Default directory hash:   half_md4
Directory Hash Seed:      a266fec5-bc86-402b-9fa0-61e2ad9b5b50
Journal backup:           inode blocks