diff --git a/Deployment/master.conf.template b/Deployment/master.conf.template
index fba158b..ae0900d 100644
--- a/Deployment/master.conf.template
+++ b/Deployment/master.conf.template
@@ -693,6 +693,9 @@
                                     # lowered from 23 on 2026-07-16 — daily maintenance jobs alone now
                                     # take ~4h; 19h cap leaves room for them to still run same-day
                                     # before the next 1am fire even if a share hits the cap
+    RSYNC_MIN_FREE_GB=50            # warn if any disk backing the remote share is under this
+                                    # (0 disables). Online is not writable: a full destination
+                                    # makes rsync stall rather than fail. Warns, never aborts.
     CRITICAL_CONTAINER_NAMES=()     # containers stopped on REMOTE before rsync — profiles override
     DELAYED_CONTAINERS=()           # containers needing delay before starting — profiles override
     CONTAINER_DELAY=5               # seconds before starting delayed containers
diff --git a/common.sh b/common.sh
index ef8c2e7..ad2847d 100755
--- a/common.sh
+++ b/common.sh
@@ -1526,6 +1526,49 @@ check_remote_disks() {
         error "One or more disks backing $share_name are offline on $REMOTE_SERVER_NAME"
         exit 1
     fi
+
+    # ── Free space, per backing disk ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+    # Online is not the same as writable. A share pinned by its allocation method to one disk
+    # reports plenty free at the share level while that disk is full, and rsync answers a full
+    # destination by STALLING rather than failing — it holds its lock and every later run of
+    # that tier declines to start. RSYNC_MAX_RUNTIME_HOURS bounds how long that lasts; this is
+    # the part that says so before the transfer rather than after.
+    #
+    # Warn-and-notify, never abort: rsync still moves whatever fits, and refusing every
+    # transfer because one backing disk is low is a worse outage than a bounded partial run.
+    local _min_free_gb="${RSYNC_MIN_FREE_GB:-50}"
+    if [[ "$_min_free_gb" -gt 0 ]] 2>/dev/null; then
+        local _paths=""
+        while IFS= read -r disk_name; do
+            [[ -n "$disk_name" ]] && _paths+=" /mnt/$disk_name/$share_name"
+        done <<< "$backing_disks"
+        while IFS= read -r pool_name; do
+            [[ -n "$pool_name" ]] && _paths+=" /mnt/$pool_name/$share_name"
+        done <<< "$zfs_pool_paths"
+
+        if [[ -n "${_paths// /}" ]]; then
+            # One round trip for every path — this runs before each transfer and the mesh link
+            # is the slow part. -BG so the unit is fixed regardless of the remote's df default.
+            local _df_out
+            _df_out=$(ssh -i "$SSH_KEY" -o ConnectTimeout=10 root@"$REMOTE_SERVER" \
+                "for p in $_paths; do [ -d \"\$p\" ] && echo \"\$p \$(df -BG --output=avail \"\$p\" 2>/dev/null | tail -1 | tr -dc '0-9')\"; done" 2>/dev/null)
+
+            local _low=""
+            while IFS=' ' read -r _p _avail; do
+                [[ -z "$_p" || -z "$_avail" ]] && continue
+                if [[ "$_avail" -lt "$_min_free_gb" ]] 2>/dev/null; then
+                    warn "$ICON_DISK $_p has ${_avail}G free — below ${_min_free_gb}G"
+                    _low+="$_p (${_avail}G) "
+                fi
+            done <<< "$_df_out"
+
+            if [[ -n "$_low" ]]; then
+                notify "Low free space on $REMOTE_SERVER_NAME backing $share_name: $_low— rsync stalls rather than failing when a destination disk fills" \
+                    "Varaverk: remote disk nearly full" "warning"
+            fi
+        fi
+    fi
+
     success "All disks backing $share_name are online ✅"
 }