I'm rsyncing some files from a linux server down to a FAT partition on
my laptop (FAT because I want to access the files from both Linux and
Windoze). Unfortunately rsync thinks some of the files are different
(when they're not) and therefore deletes the copied file and recopies it
down. Any ideas on what the problem might be?

Here's the command I'm using:

rsync -av -e ssh --delete --delete-during --force --modify-window=5 
linuxserver:stuff/ stuff/

I've tried --modify-window - no effect. I've tried --delete-during, before,
after - no affect.

The filenames are a mix of upper and lower case, with and without spaces
and special characters - a possible cause of problems? 

I mount the target partition like this:

/dev/hda2 /media/hda2 vfat defaults,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0

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