Are you doing a full recursive copy of / from rootfs for sdd7 (aka cp -r /) if so, are the other partitions mounted as well?
Cheers Kad On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Iain Buchanan <iai...@netspace.net.au>wrote: > Hi, > > I have two 160Gb drives, one internal and one USB. I've partitioned > them the same and created an identical filesystem on the USB drive for > backing up my internal drive. > > I'm using the following rsync command to make the backup: > sudo /usr/bin/ionice -c 3 /usr/bin/rsync -aAx --exclude suspend_file > --delete --delete-excluded --partial > --human-readable / /media/root-backup > > however, after running this command sporadically for a few days, the USB > partition is now full, whereas my root partition isn't! > > sda is internal, and sdd is external. sda7 is the one I'm interested > in: > > $ sudo fdisk -l > > Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x00000080 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sda1 1 11 88326 6 FAT16 > /dev/sda2 * 12 4875 39070080 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/sda3 4876 4888 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sda4 4889 19457 117025492+ 5 Extended > /dev/sda5 4889 7321 19543041 83 Linux > /dev/sda6 7322 7384 506016 83 Linux > /dev/sda7 7385 19457 96976341 83 Linux > > Disk /dev/sdd: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes > 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes > Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes > Disk identifier: 0x5d5d0036 > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/sdd1 1 11 88326 6 FAT16 > /dev/sdd2 12 4875 39070080 b W95 FAT32 > /dev/sdd3 4876 4888 104422+ 83 Linux > /dev/sdd4 4889 19457 117025492+ 5 Extended > /dev/sdd5 4889 7321 19543041 83 Linux > /dev/sdd6 7322 7384 506016 83 Linux > /dev/sdd7 7385 19457 96976341 83 Linux > > I just deleted a bunch of /var/tmp and distfiles to free up some space, > and ran the rsync again. Now it looks like this: > > $ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > rootfs 92G 81G 6.1G 93% / > /dev/sdd7 92G 89G 4.6M 100% /media/root-backup > > /dev/sda3 99M 39M 55M 42% /boot > /dev/sdd3 99M 39M 55M 42% /media/boot-backup > > I'm doing the /root backup from cron, but the /boot backup manually when > I make changes. > > I thought perhaps the ext3 options were different (ie. different amount > of "reserved" space) but that would make the "Avail" columns different, > and shouldn't make the "Used" columns different. > > any thoughts as to why my USB partition is full? thanks, > -- > Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> > > Most people have two reasons for doing anything -- a good reason, and > the real reason. > > >
