It appears that at least once when I did this I had shot myself in the foot. Please check to see if the kernel thinks root was mounted twice.
What appears to have happened to me was that when I booted with the esata device powered off, the esata device was /dev/sdc. When I booted with the device powered on, the _root device_ became /dev/sdc. And rather stupidly, I mounted /dev/sdc as my backup device. If you can see if that's what I did here, then the bug is that it let me mount root twice, or that I'm stupid. Take your pick. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1050696 Title: Crash while doing an rsync backup To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1050696/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
