Running out of space on the /tmp mount point? On Sep 25, 2016 5:11 PM, "Rich Shepard" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Prior to upgrading the OS version on my Dell E5410 laptop I tried to > backup everything in ~/ to a 2.7T external hard drive with 22M of data on > it. After deleting cruft from ~/ du -sh told me my home directory contained > 40G of data. > > With /mnt/hd/caddis/ (the laptop's host name) as the pwd I entered the > command: > tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard/ > > The system churned away for a long time (I didn't time it, but it would > have > been more than a coffee break in length) and finally exited with an error > message about exiting after prior errors occurred. Tried this again with > the > same results. > > What might cause such a response? > > Rich > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
