On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 09:57:02AM -0400, Michael A. Miller wrote: > Found the problem - here's the story... > > I have an external usb drive mounted at /mnt/mirror. I do a > nightly rsync to of system and home dirs to there. For some > reason - still not sure what - it was not mounted, so /mnt/mirror > was part of /. The nightly rsync wrote to /mnt/mirror, and > filled the partition. I rebooted and the external drive was > properly mounted, so I couldn't see the directories that it was > mounted over. I'm cleaning that up now and am trying to figure > out what went wrong. One easy fix is to put a check for the > properly mounted disk in my rsync script. I thought of that but got sidetracked by the "one partition" part and lost track of it. good catch. A
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