After an hour I finally got my computer back to working properly. It's all because of a backup that went to sda1 instead of to an external disk. I came home and discovered that the backup had failed due to inadequate disk space. A few moments later I confirmed that the hard disk was 100% full.
Here are the details: Backup program is pybackpack, a GUI for rdiff-backup. Source: /, with typical exclusions Destination: /media/disk2/Full_system_backup/ The computer is a Thinkpad and the external disk is a 500GB disk that lives in a carrier that fits into the Ultrabay in place of the CD/DVD drive. To make a backup I simply pull out the optical drive and insert the 500GB drive. It automounts in a few moments because there is an entry in fstab that tells the OS to mount it automatically at /media/disk2. Nautilus is happy to let me drag and drop files to and from it. The problem lies in telling rdiff-backup to place the backup on the external drive, not on the mount point. I assumed that if Nautilus lets me drag and drop files from the 500GB drive that it is mounted. And I also assumed that if it is mounted, then any disk writes to the mount point would go to the 500GB drive. Evidently I am missing a critical bit of understanding about mount and mount points. Before I try again, can someone explain what went wrong? _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
