I finally found out where my hard drive memory was going to on my root drive /. (Or, I may have rediscovered where those missing bytes are. Ain't it nice to mature.)
I have a root hard drive with about 3 gigs of space on it. It got filled up even though I have moved almost everything off it. Very puzzling. Turns out, I have a mnt point for a backupdrive, /mnt/hdc1, on the root drive. This backup is automatic. If the backup drive isn't mounted, the backup program, cp -au, just merrily makes a directory /mnt/hdc1 on my root drive /, and writes to it, thus filling up the / drive eventually. This is a tough thing to find out because if you mount the backup drive, which is the default configuration, you don't see the extra directory /mnt/hdc1. Well, lucky I usually keep an extra OS on my system, so I can boot into it and play around with my usual / directory. (Now, where will I use that 80 gig drive I just bought to replace my old "defective" hard drive.) Joel _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list - http://linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users Subscribe/Unsubscribe info, Archives,and Digests are located at the above URL.
