Backups completely filling root drive.
Larry Alkoff
labradley at mindspring.com
Tue Sep 26 16:54:30 UTC 2006
Tony Arnold wrote:
> Larry,
>
> On Tue, 2006-09-26 at 09:37 -0500, Larry Alkoff wrote:
>> I have effectively destroyed two Kubuntu 6.0.6 installations while
>> attempting to copy to a mounted backup drive using cp -a. When the copy
>> finishes, df says there is 0 space left in my / partition and I don't
>> know why. The / partition is normally 10 gig with 3.5 gig used.
>>
>> Now that I'm working with my 3rd install, I'd like to try and find out
>> what happened.
>>
>> I have a feeling it has to do with the fact that the target drive is
>> mounted under /mnt/name but I don't see why that should have anything to
>> do with the space on the source partition.
>
> Have you looked to see where all the space on the root partition has
> gone? You can use du for this, e.g.,
>
> cd /
> du -sh *
>
> will give you a summary of each top directory in /. You can drill down
> to find further information.
>
> Does the copy complete successfully and are all the files you expect
> in /mnt/name?
>
> Output from a mount command or df plus the exact command you used might
> be helpful.
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
Thanks for your reply Tony.
First I used df and realized there was a big problem. That threw me for
a loop.
I also used du but of course it included the /mnt drives. Only found
the -x parameter today. Since I suspect the /mnt/name files (they were
the target) I can check with du -x.
The copy did not complete sucessfully because the target ran out of space.
I'll shut down, re-install the old target drive and give you the info
you need later today.
Larry
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