Mark Robinson wrote:
Hello S.L.U.G,
I have a debian fileserver that was playing silly buggers at me earlier! It was complaining badly cos it's root filesystem was full, which is not a bad complaint in itself, except that it's a 1.4G partition and only has a couple of hundred meg on it! [snip]
might wanna check you didn't have anything mounted on top of / hiding stuff - Kyle (bagpuss) can relate to this problem, we found the same thing on one of his boxen a couple of months ago
Yeah, that was fun. If memory serves me right, there was a cronjob running every 5 minutes, firing off an rsync from one machine to /mnt/backup on another. However, /mnt/backup hadn't been mounted correctly, and rsync was just piling the data into the directory instead of the correct partition, resulting in / filling up rather quickly :-p
Of course, since the rsync was still running when I mounted the partition correctly, it still wrote to the old space until all rsync processes had been killed and crontab had been left to start them again.
Regards
Kyle
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