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I know what a string is.

Have you ever actually seen this happen? I have filled many discs, and the answer has always been to rm something, and I literally have not once seen or heard of rm not working because the disc is full. The system calls within rm that list files in the directory do not consume disc space.

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Clarke311@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I have seen this quite a few times on Centos on virtualized systems.

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- mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  What error message did rm give you?
  
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  - Clarke311@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Something about no space available on disc I don’t know I haven’t seen that in months I was bored I was going through my notes and I found that one liner
    
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    mo_ztt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I believe you that you got a “no space left on device” error, but I think you are misremembering it being a result of a simple rm command – if you really did get that error from rm, then it’s an indication of something much more seriously wrong than a full disc (filesystem corruption or bug).
    
    Citations (first two results from a google search for “can’t rm because no space left on disc”):
    
    Citation 1 (BTRFS specifically can get into that situation, which represented an argument for never using BTRFS in production)
    
    Citation 2 (Happened because of a corrupted filesystem)
    
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