# Common Gotchas

This chapter lists some common gotchas that should be avoided.

## Removing inodes in unlink handler

If your file system is mounted at `mnt`, the following code should complete without errors:

    with open('mnt/file_one', 'w+') as fh1:
        fh1.write('foo')
        fh1.flush()
        with open('mnt/file_one', 'a') as fh2:
            os.unlink('mnt/file_one')
            assert 'file_one' not in os.listdir('mnt')
            fh2.write('bar')
        os.close(os.dup(fh1.fileno()))
        fh1.seek(0)
        assert fh1.read() == 'foobar'

If you’re getting an error, then you probably did a mistake when implementing the `unlink` handler and are removing the file contents when you should be deferring removal to the `forget` handler.