It was a couple of weeks ago but I think that because the root partition became so full I could not even delete the offending folder. I fixed it by using a live cd.
I will look into rsnapshot. Thanks. On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Volker Kuhlmann <[email protected]>wrote: > On Fri 13 Sep 2013 11:55:33 NZST +1200, Robert Fisher wrote: > > > Do not run rsync to backup files to a portable drive without first > checking > > that the drive is mounted. > > Yep, BTDT. > > > Filling up the root partition is not easy to fix. > > Why? Unless you made some really silly use of mount points and raync > target directories, all the stuff is in a single directory, just on the > wrong disk. Delete that nad you're running again, so maybe you want to > restart a few services. > > Btw I can really only recommend to use rsnapshot, it has too many > advantages. It would probably have errored out on this one as a sdide > effect. > > Volker > > -- > Volker Kuhlmann > http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. > _______________________________________________ > Linux-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users > -- Robert Fisher
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