On Tuesday 25 December 2001 12:34 am,Joel Hammer wrote: > Well, I am not sure what happened, but I fixed the problem. > Under /mnt, I had some awful looking things like: > /mnt/hdc1/hda/mnt/hda3, and so on. I am not sure how these got > created, but they were left over from transferring my root partition > between partitions and various drives. Anyway, I just doggedly > removed all ridiculous looking directories, and suddenly I got back > 1.5 gigs of free space. I may have been mounting the directory on > itself. Dunno.
Yes. I did exactly this once many moons ago when I blindly used cp -a to copy a whole partition wihout remembering how the empty partition was mounted. I was using KDE at the time so I saw it happening 'visually' so I could stop it before it ate the whole world. <snip> -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
