On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:00:56 -0800
David <[email protected]> dijo:

>> But I continued to get the same error message even after I renamed
>> the file. Thus, the file and directory name were different. And
>> Catfish said that no file with the same name as the folder existed.
>
>Having no experience with Catfish, I can't help you here. Perhaps the 
>filesystem has a phantom memory of a file or directory with the exact 
>name you are trying to create. To clear this, try to umount the 
>partition and run fsck on it. If that isn't possible, you may also 
>consider a 'find' on the directory with the _exact_ name as the target.

It certainly is acting as though there is a phantom memory of a file or
directory, so I had high hopes that umounting and running fsck would
solve the problem. Sadly:

jjj@Devil-Bonobo:/media/jjj$ sudo fsck /dev/sdc1
[sudo] password for jjj: 
fsck from util-linux 2.20.1
e2fsck 1.42.9 (4-Feb-2014)
Movies: clean, 5360/152621056 files, 264645440/1220942336 blocks

After remounting the error message continues.

I discovered that if I replace the space with a dot the folder is
created without error. I did not change the '½' character, so this
should at least demonstrate that it is unlikely that my '½' character
is the cause of the problem. And most of the hundreds of folders in
that partition have spaces in them, so nothing is adding up here.

At some point I must continue with my life, so I'm just going to leave
folder with the dot in it and move on.
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