[tor-bugs] #18591 [Tor Browser]: Hardened browser updated filled up my disk by following symlink

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#18591: Hardened browser updated filled up my disk by following symlink
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     Reporter:  cypherpunks  |      Owner:  tbb-team
         Type:  defect       |     Status:  new
     Priority:  Medium       |  Milestone:
    Component:  Tor Browser  |    Version:
     Severity:  Normal       |   Keywords:
Actual Points:               |  Parent ID:
       Points:               |   Reviewer:
      Sponsor:               |
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 I tried to upgrade from hardened-6.0a2 to a3 with the built-in updater. It
 sat there for many minutes making no obvious progress. Eventually I killed
 it and found its partition was full. I don't think it showed me an error
 about that.


 What happened was that the "download" directory in the profile was a
 symlink to a larger partition. So it tried to copy ~1TB of downloaded
 files to my /home partition that was only 100GB. It should copy symlinks
 as links and not dereference them.

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