> they had filled macOS’s startup volume storage so full that the operating system was incapable of deleting files Yeah, this has happened to me too. It became

> they had filled macOS’s startup volume storage so full that the operating system was incapable of deleting files Yeah, this has happened to me too. It became a lot more of an issue when my disk was (forcefully, non-consensually) converted to "APFS" which, along with breaking both alternative operating systems I had installed, also seemed to have a much greater chance of entirely bricking once I ran out of space. I was consistently able to repair it by running a disk check in recovery mode, then deleting the files from the recovery terminal, however that is only accessible by a reboot, which by its very nature, necessarily loses all work that I had open, as it's impossible to save. I never had this issue with HFS+. Everyone who says it can technically lock up is missing the fact that in practice it was still far more resilient than the newer and supposedly "better" APFS.