Hello Guix, I've had this issue before but couldn't understand what was happening at the time. At that time, I simply resized my filesystem then ran the garbage collector. $ touch /tmp/test.txt touch: cannot touch '/tmp/test.txt': No space left on device $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev /dev/sda1 37G 25G 11G 71% / tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm cgroup 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none 1.9G 12K 1.9G 1% /run/systemd none 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /run/user tmpfs 376M 0 376M 0% /run/user/1000 In the #guix channel, jmd suggested that this might be an inode issue: