On Tue, 16 Sep 2025, at 01:54, 'Joseph Maher' via s3ql wrote:
> When I run fsck.s3ql, I specify that certain files are on a different
> partition than the root (/) partition with these options (/mnt/backup is a
> different partition here):
>
> --log /mnt/backup/root/.s3ql/fsck.log
>
> --authfile=/mnt/backup/root/.s3ql/authinfo2
>
> --cachedir=/mnt/backup/cache/gs/
>
> However, at some point something writes temporary data about the size of
> the metadata (in this case about 100G) to the root partition, I think
> somewhere between checking inodes and uploading metadata. I have not been
> able to determine exactly what file the data goes in or what is creating
> the file, so maybe it is some sqlite cache thing not directly created by
> s3ql? I think it goes in /tmp, as if I move /tmp to the other partition,
> the temporary data does end up there...
>
> Anyway, it would be great if I could specify this to be somewhere else...
I suspect these are the temporary tables created by SQLite (section 2.6 in
https://www.sqlite.org/tempfiles.html). Section 5 tells you how to put them
elsewhere, maybe give that a try?
Best,
-Nikolaus
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