On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 01:42:51PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > On Sat 26 May 2018 at 20:21:13 (+0200), Hans wrote: > > Am Samstag, 26. Mai 2018, 19:48:44 CEST schrieb ben: > > Hi Ben, > > > > hard to say, maybe your partition is mounted read only? > > This happened at me in the past for two times. One after a filesystem > > check, > > the other case was, when the partition was full. > > That's a new one on me: is it meant to happen? It seems like a > Catch-22 if you can't delete files when a partition is full. > All I've observed is that various things get stuck, depending on > the filesystem involved (usually /home in my case).
What if 'delete' actually means 'we move files to some hidden trash directory'? To move a file you must change trash directory inode, possibly growing it. You must change original directory inode as well, but ext3/4 does not shrink directory size on deletion. Thus 'lack of free space' equals 'unable to move files'. Or "delete" them, in DE speak. Reco
