Frederik wrote: > On 5/31/07, Charles Duffy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Frederik wrote: >> > Actually, rdiff-backup is a disaster in dealing with full disks: >> > looking at the size of rdiff-backup-data, a lot of space is used by >> > old increments. Unfortunately, rdiff-backup --remove-older-than fails >> > because no more disk space is available! So this leaves me with a >> > chicken and egg problem: I have to make free space, but to free space, >> > I have to remove old increments, which is impossible because the disk >> > is full :-( ... > AFAIK only ext2 and ext3 reserve 5% for root, other file systems don't. > And no, this system does not use LVM, as this machine was installed > some time ago
The traditional answer is just to create a dummy file to fill a bit of space. Then when your disk fills up, you delete it, do whatever you need to and recreate it. Cheers, Dave _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
