about quotas?

[Curtis Vaughan <curtis@npc-usa.com>]

I have a question, which really doesn't concern quotas as far as I 
understand them.

Over the weekend, I needed to perform a task whereby a file was written 
from an NT 4 server to a samba share on a Debian server.  The file was 
about 3.5 gig. At 3.2 I received an error to the effect that there was 
no more disk space left, although in fact the partition size was about 
28 gig.

So, just for the sake of it, I copied the file from the server to the 
partition and it worked!  After deleting the file, I tried to perform 
the original operation again, but it would only write about 1 meg of 
information and then error out that there was no space.

Why would this be happening?

btw, I don't have quotas enabled.

Curtis Vaughan