On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 5:50 PM, Ray Leventhal <centos@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Sorin Srbu wrote: >> >> Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: >> >> >>> >>> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order >>> (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really >>> stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. >>> >> >> Try a yum clean all. That might help. But if it's as you say, not >> connected to the internet, you probably are not running yum at all, so it >> might not help. Check your temp-directories and clean out as necessary. >> <snip> >> > Thanks to all who replied. > > / filled up when my nightly rsync snapshot did something which I'm still > looking into. > > I run a nightly rsync script to make copies (to an external HDD connected > via USB) of user data files: > > #backup to USB drive location for /home > # /media/bkup is /dev/sdg1 (USB 700GB drive) > rsync -av --delete /home/ /media/bkup > cd > > Well, in /media, there were 2 folders, not just one.../bkup and /bkup_ as > well as 2 .lock files. I determined which was the last complete backup and > deleted the other... needless to say / space began to increase, but I'm > truly puzzled about why a mount point would take up space on / when the > media is external. > > Anyone with insight into my flawed logic, please let me know :) > > Thanks for all help and the ongoing knowledge gained from this list. > > -Ray > _______________________________________________ That all depends on how the USB HDD was mounted. If it wasn't mounted sucesfully, then /media will be treated as just another folder. How do you mound the HDD? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos