id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc blockedby blocking branch_state votes 3297 "mc loses files on ""skip"" when ""Cannot preallocate space for target file""" onlyjob andrew_b "As reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767463 I just wanted to move some old IRC logs to the side, so I marked them, hit F6 to move to the old/ subdirectory, and told mc to append. I got an error message: ║ Cannot preallocate space for target file ""/home/t/tglaser~ev_arandom.log"" ║ ║ Bad file descriptor (9) ║ When I hit “abort”, it cleanly aborted, and nothing happened. But when I hit “skip”, the target(!) file is deleted. ① Why does this error occur in the first place? Filesystem is: /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,quota,usrquota,data=ordered) ② It should not lose data. " defect closed critical 4.8.14 mc-core master fixed merged committed-master