You guys are GREAT! - Problem Solved.....
Well, the problem was that /mnt/tripod never got mounted and I did fill up
/mnt/tripod with the recursive copy until it ran out of space. What was
causing me problems was that I though I had created one large tmp file
somewhere. All of my searches using find /whereever -size +1000k turned up
nothing because there wasn't one big file, but a lot of little files. Needless
to say I feel completely lame at this point.............
Thanks again for the quick help!
Pierre Fortin wrote:
> On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:35:03 -0500 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> A *quick* "mayday" response while I think on it...
>
> This can happen when you have a symlink that points back [in]to the parent
> directory. So you end up copying that directory/file recursively over and
> over until...
>
> "du -s /mnt/tripod/rbpllcbackup/*" should give you a clue which path to
> follow...
>
> Pierre
>
> > Help!!
> >
> > I think I killed it! LM 7.2. I was dorking around with a backup
> > script
> > and I innocently made a few modification and I filled the / partition up
> > to the MAX. Specifically, df showed the following (before and after):
> >
> > [david@Nemesis david]$ df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1 241116 94480 134188 41% /
> > /dev/hda8 22580208 613160 20820012 3% /home
> > /dev/hda6 3020140 921856 1944868 32% /usr
> > /dev/hda7 18081960 65116 17098332 0% /var
> > /proc/bus/usb 4520490 4520490 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
> >
> > [root@Nemesis david]# df
> > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda1 241116 241116 0 100% /
> > /dev/hda8 22580208 613940 20819232 3% /home
> > /dev/hda6 3020140 921856 1944868 32% /usr
> > /dev/hda7 18081960 65116 17098332 0% /var
> > /proc/bus/usb 4520490 4520490 0 100% /proc/bus/usb
> >
> > Somehow I lost 134 Megs on the / mount point??? Where in the Sam
> > Hill
> > did it go? I've looked and I can't find it (#$#%%^) The modified script
> > I ran was as follows:
> >
> > echo \
> > echo Starting Rankin*Bertin, PLLC Backup......
> > echo \
> > smbmount //tripod/c /mnt/tripod -o password=xxxxxxxx
> > cp -Ruvf /home/samba/rbpllc /mnt/tripod/rbpllcbackup > /home/david/log
> > umount /mnt/tripod
> >
> > Oh, it freaking died in the cp action and never got to "umount
> > /mnt/tripod"
> >
> > The echo \ was all that was added in trying to put line feeds in
> > the
> > script. (I now know that doesn't do it....) The log file is no help.
> >
> > Anyway, I have looked and looked for some file that I created that
> > was
> > over 50M but I can't find shi%. Oh, I've found "core" and "kcore" but I
> > don't think those memory files are doing it. Are they?????
> >
> > Help!!! Am I screwed? Did I do something really really bad? How do
> > I
> > get my 134M back? Where in the hell is the file I created that sucked
> > all my disk space up?
> >
> > Uh...., it goes without saying that any help will be GREATLY
> > aprectiated!
> >
> > --
> > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E.
> > ASEL -- Instrument
> > Nacogdoches, Texas
> > N31 34.7 W094 42.6
> > 355 MSL
> >
> >
>
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