rsync from remote host "failed: No space left on device (28)" even with --inplace

[Adam Funk]

Hi

I'm trying to copy a lot of data from a high-performance computing
server to a USB hard drive.

$ ssh remotehost
# successful
# then in another terminal:
$ rsync -e ssh -a --info=progress2 --inplace \
    remotehost:/path/to/the_stuff/  /media/adam/CWB_DATA/the_stuff/

It keeps failing with "failed: No space left on device (28)" even
though the USB drive has plenty of space:

$ df -h .
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1       466G   24G  442G   6% /media/adam/CWB_DATA

$ df -ih .
Filesystem     Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1           0     0     0     - /media/adam/CWB_DATA

I added the --inplace option after googling the error message, but
it's still producing the same error. I assume the inode 0 count is
because the drive is formatted in fat32.

Is the drive format the problem?

Any other suggestions?

Thanks!