I can confirm this unfortunate behavior.
Doing some more testing this "only" seems to happen where there is the
backupfile filename~ present. If there is no filename~ present emacs
does seem to leave the original file un-truncated.
** Changed in: emacs22 (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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emacs truncates files when out of disk space
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/328287
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