'Root is full' problem [solved]

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 16:06:16 +0100
Colin Law wrote:

> Is it possible that you copied (or ran a command that achieved that)
> data to the mount point while the disk was not mounted there?  I think
> you mentioned scripts that expect the disk to be mounted there, if you
> ran the script when it was not mounted could that explain it?

Thinking along those lines, what might have happened was that I was running
lsyncd, and I probably didn't shut it down properly before I removed the
drive, and so it just copied the stuff to the /mnt directory thus filling
up the root drive.  If that was the explanation, that was a really stupid
thing to do, though I thought I had stopped it - perhaps I only stopped it
from running on reboot. Maybe next time I need to check it has been shut
down more thoroughly. I'm ashamed to admit that I now have a dim memory of
having made a similar mistake a couple of years ago.

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber