Filling / in novel ways

[Robert Brockway]

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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