You are describing what happens with an out-of-space condition. Even though you may be under your disk space quota, the host may have oversold the disk or some of the users may be over quota on a system without 'hard' quotas. Even if you test and find you have space, you may have an intermittent problem. A second problem could be 'too many files' if you host limits the number of files.

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