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

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:40:35 +0000 Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:

> 
> 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.

You did also use /sbin/mkfs.vfat to actualy format the drive?  And then 
mounted it?

> 
> 

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