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

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:03:19 +0000 Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:

> 
> On 2024-11-08, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> AFAICT gparted formatted the drive. I deleted the old ext4 partitions
> on it, added a FAT32, and clicked "apply"; then I mounted it and it
> came up as "vfat" and worked. (I'm sure this is how I've always done
> USB drives.)
> 
> Am I supposed to do something else? 

Not sure. It sounds like you use a GUI partitioning tool ('and clicked
"apply"'). I've always used CLI tools: parted, mkfs.whatever, etc. I have no
clue what the GUI tool does. I don't believe parted will actually format
partitions, but don't know about gparted. *I* don't really trust pointy-clicky
tool, mainly because I don't know what option settings they are using -- too
much "mystery under the hood". Maybe the settings are sensible, maybe not.
Maybe you need a different set of settings for what you are doing.

> 
> 

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