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

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2024-11-08 at 12:51 +0000, Adam Funk wrote:
> None of the files are even close to that big, but there are a lot of
> files (a few hundred thousand).

IIRC there's a limit of 65535 files in a FAT32 directory. If any one
directory or subdirectory has more than that many files, you'll get a
failure.

If you don't have more than 65535 files in any one directory, this is
not the problem, provided the drive really is FAT32.

Regards, K.

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