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On Tuesday 29 January 2008 19:03:49 Eberhard Roloff wrote:
Hi,
fwiw I experienced such a behaviour with using rsnapshot for backup purposes. When I began, I foolishly forgot to set "no_create_root 1" in rsnapshot conf. Consequently when the backup ran AND the backup disk was not mounted, it created a directory "/media/backup" and the rsnapshot backup filled this until my / was 100% full.
That could be the answer, as I back up to an external USB hard drive using an rsync script which is very similar to rsnapshot. I had noticed that the backup disk was almost full (150GB), just before the root directory problem. I'm also looking into my ktorrent settings. Thanks to everyone who has replied to this thread. One suggestion was that the / directory was too small at 1GB. It seemed to have been very happy with this size until Yast2 software management warned me when I was installing some more packages. I'd be interested to know how big other people's / is. Would 2GB suffice? Bear in mind I have /usr, /var, /opt and /tmp all in their own partitions (which may or may not be large enough!). So, apart from /etc there's not a lot left for /. Bob -- Bob openSUSE 10.3, Kernel 2.6.22.13-0.3-default, KDE 3.5.8 Intel Celeron 2.53GB, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org