Topic: Hard Drive Full

[Kevin Tollison]

I am having a problem with ESSG 4.12. It says the drive is full and I have deleted at least a gig of data and it still shows 0 disk space free. What am I missing?

it is a 30 GB drive and I am using it for 3 win2K machines, Samba 2.2.1a

[Kevin Tollison]

I also get an internal server error in e-smith manager.

everything was working fine when I left Friday

[Kevin Tollison]

I found the problem and now I feel stupid

[Charlie Brady]

Kevin Tollison wrote:
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> I found the problem and now I feel stupid

How about you tell people what the problem was, then when someone else gets the same problem, they can find your solution, by using the Search feature on the bulletin board.

Thanks

Charlie

[Kevin Tollison]

Sorry about that Charlie. I was in a hurry the boss was beathing down my neck to get it fixed.  I did not want any of you guys wasting time on me.

Anyway I used Des Dougan's "How to backup to disk using Flexbackup on e-smith" and can be found at:
 http://www.e-smith.org/docs/howto/contrib/flexbackup-to-disk-howto.htm

When I restart the machine it did not remount the /mnt/backup I had created.  instead it was writing my backup file to /mnt/backup on the local machine and hence filled it up quickly.  

There are 2 things i am still fuzzy about though

1. Why was no drive space freed when I deleted the contents of an entire ibay 1GB+ of data?

2. This section of Des's how-to:
     
>Configuring flexbackup to write to disk

>Flexbackup can be configured to backup to a disk by simply changing >the "$device" variable in /etc/flexbackup.conf via the e-smith way by entering:

>[root@e-smith]# /sbin/e-smith/db configuration setprop backup >Device /mnt/backup
>[root@e-smith]# /sbin/e-smith/signal-event conf-backup

If I enter this again after a restart it will start to work again, or manually remount the drive.

I just noticed the how-to has been updated since I did this and modifing the cron entry was added.
Could this be my whole problem?

Thanks for any help