On 12/16/2014 07:16 AM, Ruben Safir wrote:
Anyone know why a tar archive would fail when using a thumb drive?
I have a 250gig thumb drive that I'm trying to back up my home directory to and I get this error
/home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1882.CR2 /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1937.CR2 /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/uraguay_1969_new.jpg /home/ruben/images/uragay_coin/IMG_1830.JPG tar: /home/ruben/tape/workstation_12_15_2014.tar: Wrote only 4095 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
I was able to recreate this tar error, the filesystem was just full. The kind of media and the type of filesystem is irrelevant, as expected. My error: tar: /mnt/test.tar: Wrote only 6144 of 10240 bytes tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now and the df -h: /dev/sdi1 239G 239G 20K 100% /mnt Ruben, did you mount your thumb drive in your home directory? And did you then tar your home directory? If so, you may have recursively filled up your thumb drive. Try mounting the drive someplace like /mnt outside of the directory you're backing up. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org