Bug report for Gnu Emacs<br>Version: 21.4.2<br>OS: Mandriva Linux 2006 Free<br>Filesystem: ext3<br><br>Scenario: overwriting (C-x C-w) an existing file, where the new file to be written is larger than the available disk space on the filesystem where the original file is kept.
<br><br>Bug: after confirming that it is okay to overwrite the existing file, the error message displayed is &quot;file already exists&quot;.<br>Expected behavior: error message should read &quot;No space left on device or similar&quot;.
<br><br>strace confirms that emacs is getting the right errno (ENOSPC) for the write to the file handle.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Alex<br><br>