On 12/05/2014 14:45, Ron Leach wrote:
and I think I can delete everything within, and beneath, /mnt/test/mnt/backupserver
So I did that. server4:/home/ron# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/md1 2.8G 170M 2.7G 6% / tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 808K 9.3M 8% /dev tmpfs 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm /dev/md6 1.8T 1.4T 406G 78% /nfs /dev/sda1 313M 16M 281M 6% /boot /dev/sdb1 313M 16M 281M 6% /boot2 /dev/md5 38G 2.4G 35G 7% /home /dev/md4 949M 4.3M 945M 1% /tmp /dev/md2 9.4G 1.2G 8.2G 13% /usr /dev/md3 4.7G 773M 3.9G 17% /var server4:/home/ron# /dev/md1 looks normal, now.Thanks to everyone with all their insights and subsequent advice for avoiding the problem, especially Sven whose mount command I used to be able to check the partition and remove the files, while the server was still running.
Very grateful, Ron