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

[Tommy Trussell]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2024 at 12:52 PM Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:

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

Now that it has been well supported in Linux for awhile*, anytime I want to
format a USB drive that could bump into the FAT limitations, I use exFAT
instead. I am sure NTFS might be a good option, too.** I HOPE any large
capacity USB stick or card you find nowadays might be pre-formatted in
exFAT instead of FAT, as it's REALLY easy to bump into the limitations of
FAT, and in my experience, when a write to FAT fails, the error messages in
linux userspace can be misleading.

*I see exFAT has been natively supported since linux kernel 5.4. I used
utilities that included non-native drivers before that.

**NTFS has been natively supported since linux kernel 5.15. Around the time
I was testing the differences for backup drive purposes, the non-native
drivers for NTFS seemed buggier than the non-native drivers for exFAT. But
I assume the two filesystems are more similarly supported now.
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