Filling / in novel ways
Robert Brockway
robert-5LEc/6Zm6xCUd8a0hrldnti2O/JbrIOy at public.gmane.org
Thu Aug 26 15:26:15 UTC 2010
On Thu, 26 Aug 2010, William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> The first thing that filled up my root partition was that my WD MyBook
> got unplugged. I usually have it mounted with NFS on /mnt/mybook - and
> /mnt is on my root partition. When the device got unplugged and my
> scheduled backup ran, it tried to push 20Gb of backup data onto the
> now-empty mount point, with only ~2Gb of free space.
I had exactly the same problem with my custom backup scripts. I fixed it
by having the backup script check for the presence of a particular file
before proceeding. If the file isn't there it exits with an error.
> 0 * * * * rm -r /home/$USER/.adobe; rm -r /home/$USER/.macromedia;
>
> I have had no problems with stability (until perhaps last night - I must
> investigate) and if I delete a browser cookie, it stays deleted, rather
> than the zombie cookie behaviour that is increasingly common.
Nice.
Cheers,
Rob
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