On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 01:23:33PM -0600, Ed Wilts wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:42:09PM +0000, Neil Loffhagen wrote:
> > This must be one of the most stupid mistakes to b made...
> 
> Nope - it's the fun that's caused by having /mnt/neil be valid if the
> mount point is not really mounted.  I've usually done the reverse -
> tried to backup to /mnt/backups and discovered that my nfs server wasn't
> mounted.  This typically results in filling the root file system :-(.

Easy workaround: create a dummy partition on disk and mount it as /mnt.
If /mnt/backups wasn't mounted, then your backup will fail, but your
rootfs will still be there and keep your system running.

Cheers,
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