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3297	"mc loses files on ""skip"" when ""Cannot preallocate space for target file"""	onlyjob	andrew_b	"As reported in https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767463

I just wanted to move some old IRC logs to the side, so I marked them,
hit F6 to move to the old/ subdirectory, and told mc to append.

I got an error message:

    ║ Cannot preallocate space for target file ""/home/t/tglaser~ev_arandom.log"" ║
    ║                          Bad file descriptor (9)                          ║

When I hit “abort”, it cleanly aborted, and nothing happened.
But when I hit “skip”, the target(!) file is deleted.

① Why does this error occur in the first place? Filesystem is:
  /dev/sda6 on /home type ext3 (rw,relatime,quota,usrquota,data=ordered)

② It should not lose data.
"	defect	closed	critical	4.8.14	mc-core	master	fixed					merged	committed-master