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

[Robert Heller]

At Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:52:31 +0000 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 at 16:37, Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> >
> > At Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:03:19 +0000 Adam Funk <a24061 at ducksburg.com> wrote:
> >
> > > 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.
> 
> Gparted is a long established and stable tool. To me it has always
> been perfectly trust worthy.

I'm NOT sugesting it is not trust worthy.  It might be that the "defaults" are 
sensible 99% of the time.  *Sometimes* there are edge cases where one needs 
option settings that are outside of the defaults.  This *might* be such a 
case.  I don't know what options are available for FAT32 for a 400+ Gig file 
system.  And it might not even be sensible to format such a large FS as FAT32. 
Maybe NTFS might actually be better (if one must have a MS-Windows compatible 
file system).

My point is that CLI tools tend to be more flexible and expose more options.  
Sometimes that is useful, helpful, or even necessary.

> 
> Colin L.
> 

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