# [Symbolic link creation fails after file deletion (#58)](https://github.com/sysprog21/simplefs/issues/58)
## symptom
When executing the following cmd

echo "run:touch file1"
touch file1

echo "run:ln -s file1 symlink"
ln -s file1 symlink

echo "run:rm -f symlink"
rm -f symlink

echo "run:touch symlink"
touch symlink

the ==touch symlink== command return "No space left on device"

## triage

How does the event be trigger? The touch command call =="simplefs_new_inode"==