Ray Leventhal 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
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when you mount an device, you will mount it to an existing directory
(/media/bkup in this case).
when the drive is mounted, everything that is written to /media/bkup
will be written on the external disk.
When the drive is unmounted, everything that is written to that
directory, will be written to.. euhm.. the directory, thus the local
file system.
So maybe something happened with the mount of the external disk??
Best regards,
--
Joost Waversveld
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