On Tue, Jun 27, 2023 at 11:30:24AM -0400, Mouse wrote: > It's a normal state to be in. But, as I read it, the post was asking > for a way to reach that state _without_ passing through a "has a name > in some directory" state; it's not clear to me whether that's possible > in general (ie, without doing something filesystem-specific).
In general that isn't possible. Being able to create a directory entry is a sort of access control. It does prevent users without that ability from allocating, possibly all remaining, space in the file system. --chris
