On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:23:33PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:42:09PM +0000, Neil Loffhagen wrote: > > This must be one of the most stupid mistakes to b made... > > Nope - it's the fun that's caused by having /mnt/neil be valid if the > mount point is not really mounted. I've usually done the reverse - > tried to backup to /mnt/backups and discovered that my nfs server wasn't > mounted. This typically results in filling the root file system :-(. Easy workaround: create a dummy partition on disk and mount it as /mnt. If /mnt/backups wasn't mounted, then your backup will fail, but your rootfs will still be there and keep your system running. Cheers, -- Javier Gostling Av. Kennedy 5757, of. 1502 Ingeniero de Sistemas Las Condes, Santiago, Chile Virtualia S.A. Fono: +56 (2) 202-6264 x 130 jgostling@virtualia.cl Fax: +56 (2) 342-8763
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