Hi Clive,
How did you remove the backup?
If it was via the GUI then I suspect it has gone in to the trash folder.
( ~/.local/share/Trash)
The other possibility is that the changes didn't write to the hard
drive, If the backup files are still there then after removing them
issue a "sync" command in to a terminal to make sure the changes are
flushed out to the disk.
Regards
David
On 19/01/15 17:31, Clive Wills wrote:
Hi All
Just clearing out my 'Home' folder on laptop and copying it to a
separate disk all OK.
So decided to 'Back-up' the 'Home' folder onto the NAS drive using
Lucky Backup on my Mint 16 system. (Lucky Backup is a graphical front
end to Rsync) Did a verification run to check if all OK and it was;
so pressed Backup and watched it run through the Home folder, it got
to within the last few files then reported something like "/ file
system full, operation terminated"!!
Had to run from a 'Live' disk to see what happened as the NAS drive is
a 2Tb drive. It would appear that the backup was saved to the
laptop's /root partition (System partition) not the NAS! No wonder it
was full as the root partition was only 27Gb and the backup was larger
than that.
Using the 'Live' disk I thought I'd removed (deleted) the backup file
from / hoping to free up space and then re-booted. Still reports
system full and looking, via Gparted, at that partition - it's still
showing full?
On re-booting laptop reports quote:-
"MDM could not write a new authorisation entry to disk. Possibly out
of diskspace. Error: No space left on device".
Terminal quote then carries on with:-
[ 54.4015821 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed.
[ 54.4016501 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through.
[ 106.1986421 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed.
This then carries on and nothing can be done.
Why does it not accept that the large file has been deleted and still
shows partition full?
How can I recover that partitions empty space? and get entry to the
system. I thought that deleting the file from a live system would
have given enough space back to carry on booting in.
Clive
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