On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 08:21, Erich Titl wrote: > Al > > At 00:10 11.11.2004 -0500, ALParada wrote: > >I did backup root but never considered the memory issue. I'm using a 128 MB > >stick and allocating 10 MB to the system with 3 MB for the logs. I can't say > >I looked at the space thinking there must be plenty. > > I found one of the most frequent glitches I made was leaving the disk mounted > when backing up root.lrp. As you can imagine this recursion eats up all > available space.
ditto, i allways used to do this. in the old releases i made a /mnt/disk /mnt/floppy and fstab entrys to match and made sure the /mnt was excluded in the root backups, to avoid doing this again. i think ??? maybee ??? the /mnt is included in the exclusion as default nowadays.. -- Ronny Aasen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE LinuxWorld Reader's Choice Award Winner for best database on Linux. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5588&alloc_id=12065&op=click ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
