[bombcar]

Some filesystems can be unable to delete a file if full. Something to be a bit worried about.

[seized]

Instead of deleting the ballast file you can just truncate it. That works on ZFS when you fill the pool and delete starts failing.

[nagaiaida]

under what circumstances does deleting files fail on a full pool? i have one that fills up semiregularly and i've never had issues that required me to truncate files

[6031769]

Please name and shame those filesystems so that we will all be forewarned.

[SAI_Peregrinus]

Any Copy-on-Write filesystem can run into this. There's always some way around it, but it can be problematic if you only have one device, can't remember the steps to fix a full filesystem, and can't look up the steps because you can't launch a browser without it trying to make some files!

[_carbyau_]

> and can't look up the steps because you can't launch a browser

My early days of computing got easier when I had a second computer to look up the issues of the first computer.