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rmcellig
Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 968 Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada
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Posted: Tue 14 May 2013, 13:45 Post subject:
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I have no idea what is going on. I had a 20GB partition for my install on my internal HD. The icon was always green on my taskbar and for some reason it is now red. I can't seem to find the culprit by using gdmap. It's as if something is being copied to my partition because as I check the red icon, space is dwindling. What should I do to find out what is going on?
My partition is 45GB.
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tytower
Joined: 24 Feb 2007 Posts: 440 Location: Green Island Cairns for the winter
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Posted: Sat 18 May 2013, 00:10 Post subject:
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I see no one has come in to help yet . One thing you can be sure of .
The savefile being used is filling up with something.
I would approach it by booting from a live CD again and then opening the savefile , looking through to find the culprit , deleting whatever and then going and stopping it happening down the line .
A boot from a usb stick would do too using a savefile on the stick or using "pfix" on boot to not load a savefile
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Sat 18 May 2013, 00:19 Post subject:
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If you have a save file; you do not have a "full" install!
Look in G-parted to see how much space is being used.
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rmcellig
Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 968 Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada
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Posted: Sat 18 May 2013, 05:54 Post subject:
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It looks like it is a crontab I am running that is copying some files from sda2 to sdb1. I was told that if sdb1 is not mounted that the crontab will create a folder in /mnt called sdb1 and copy to that. That is exactly what is happening so I always have to make sure that sdb1 is always mounted.
I tried using startmount tool but that does not work. When I restart my computer, it does not mount. I still have to manually click on the sdb1 icon which is a pain because if I forget to do this, I'm back to my original problem. Is there a way to put a force mount in the crontab I am using?
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Karl Godt

Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4208 Location: Kiel,Germany
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Posted: Sat 18 May 2013, 16:12 Post subject:
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Show us your /etc/inid.d/crontab script .
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rmcellig
Joined: 19 Nov 2011 Posts: 968 Location: Ottawa Ontario Canada
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Posted: Sun 19 May 2013, 19:23 Post subject:
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Here you go:
rsync -r -t -p -o -g -v --progress --delete -s /mnt/sda2/LPs/ /mnt/sdb1/LPs
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