Disk probems

[Andrew Kelly]

As skoal kindly suggested, I tried:

   $ du -ks /usr/share/doc/python2.4-opengl/doc/xhtml/glutShowWindow.3GLUT.xml.gz 

on my (reportedly) 65G file and got:

   4     /usr/share/doc/python2.4-opengl/doc/xhtml/glutShowWindow.3GLUT.xml.gz

as expected.

Then I did the backup like so:

   tar cvSpzf /var/backups/backup.tgz / 
     --exclude=/var/backups 
     --exclude=/proc 
     --exclude=/lost+found 
     --exclude=/mnt 
     --exclude=/sys 
     --exclude=/dev

and it skipped happily past the problem file.

However, it got stuck a bit further along in the same directory, on a file of no particular significance (nor of noteworthy size).

I can't even kill -9 the tar process.

Where to from here?