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

[Adam Funk]

On 2024-11-08, Karl Auer wrote:

> 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.

>From the way you've phrased that, I think you mean 65535 files
*immediately* in any directory, not including its subdirectories.

There are currently 120393 files on the drive, but 21844 in the most
populous directory.

I know it's FAT32 because that's what I picked when I ran gparted on
it yesterday morning.