[Novalug] Still a Problem: re: full root partition problem

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 12:54 -0400, Roger W. Broseus wrote:
> First, thanks to Peter, Anthony and Joh, especially for the instructive
> pointers about pointers in /proc.
> 
> Please bear with me in this "learning experience."
> 
> The backup was destined for an external drive so I don't think this was a
> matter of the dragon eating it's own tail. And, the files never showed-up
> on the external drive - not even in parts - I did periodic looks to see if
> anything was growing there. I'm guessing that, as others pointed out,
> there were tmp files in-process and that the backup job failed with space
> disappared (this was a BIG backup).
> 
> I have not found any temp files that might have been left behind by an
> incomplete backup. More . . .

Hold on.  Were you serious that you have /tmp actually on your hard
drive instead of as a ramdisk?  Because everything probably goes
into /tmp and is cached there before writing to disk.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: This is a digitally signed message part
Url : http://calypso.tux.org/pipermail/novalug/attachments/20081017/eb6e8447/attachment.bin