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by 6031769 71 days ago
Please name and shame those filesystems so that we will all be forewarned.
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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!
> 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.