On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 06:50:31PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > The redirection itself won't fail, unless the device is out of inodes.
Ah... OK, I can see how that might be the case. Or depending on the file system implementation, it might fail if an additional block of disk space would need to be allocated to the directory to hold the new filename. Which should be somewhat rare in practice.