Re: file system on / grew over night?

[mmiller3@iupui.edu (Michael A. Miller)]

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.

Mike