On Fri, 12 Apr 2002 01:35:03 -0500 David Rankin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
A *quick* "mayday" response while I think on it... This can happen when you have a symlink that points back [in]to the parent directory. So you end up copying that directory/file recursively over and over until... "du -s /mnt/tripod/rbpllcbackup/*" should give you a clue which path to follow... Pierre > Help!! > > I think I killed it! LM 7.2. I was dorking around with a backup > script > and I innocently made a few modification and I filled the / partition up > to the MAX. Specifically, df showed the following (before and after): > > [david@Nemesis david]$ df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 241116 94480 134188 41% / > /dev/hda8 22580208 613160 20820012 3% /home > /dev/hda6 3020140 921856 1944868 32% /usr > /dev/hda7 18081960 65116 17098332 0% /var > /proc/bus/usb 4520490 4520490 0 100% /proc/bus/usb > > [root@Nemesis david]# df > Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 241116 241116 0 100% / > /dev/hda8 22580208 613940 20819232 3% /home > /dev/hda6 3020140 921856 1944868 32% /usr > /dev/hda7 18081960 65116 17098332 0% /var > /proc/bus/usb 4520490 4520490 0 100% /proc/bus/usb > > Somehow I lost 134 Megs on the / mount point??? Where in the Sam > Hill > did it go? I've looked and I can't find it (#$#%%^) The modified script > I ran was as follows: > > echo \ > echo Starting Rankin*Bertin, PLLC Backup...... > echo \ > smbmount //tripod/c /mnt/tripod -o password=xxxxxxxx > cp -Ruvf /home/samba/rbpllc /mnt/tripod/rbpllcbackup > /home/david/log > umount /mnt/tripod > > Oh, it freaking died in the cp action and never got to "umount > /mnt/tripod" > > The echo \ was all that was added in trying to put line feeds in > the > script. (I now know that doesn't do it....) The log file is no help. > > Anyway, I have looked and looked for some file that I created that > was > over 50M but I can't find shi%. Oh, I've found "core" and "kcore" but I > don't think those memory files are doing it. Are they????? > > Help!!! Am I screwed? Did I do something really really bad? How do > I > get my 134M back? Where in the hell is the file I created that sucked > all my disk space up? > > Uh...., it goes without saying that any help will be GREATLY > aprectiated! > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. > ASEL -- Instrument > Nacogdoches, Texas > N31 34.7 W094 42.6 > 355 MSL > >
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