Bug#303020: backup-manager eats a whole partition

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Thanks for your prompt reply. find /home -type l did the trick --- I neglected to look through my dot files. You live and learn... I now understand what dereference means. I think your explanation will prevent confusion, especially for novices. Good work. Thanks for your time! Cameron Horsburg

Bug#303020: backup-manager eats a whole partition

2005-04-04 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
tags 303020 + pending thanks * Cameron Horsburgh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) disait : > Hmm, I gave your suggestion a go, and it worked. I'm surprised for two > reasons: > > First, every trick I know can't find a symlink in my whole /home > partition. Ah well, something'll turn up. What about a simple

Bug#303020: backup-manager eats a whole partition

2005-04-04 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Hmm, I gave your suggestion a go, and it worked. I'm surprised for two reasons: First, every trick I know can't find a symlink in my whole /home partition. Ah well, something'll turn up. Secondly, and I'll leave this for you to ponder, is that I remember that the symlink functionality off when

Bug#303020: backup-manager eats a whole partition

2005-04-04 Thread Alexis Sukrieh
tags 303020 + unreproducible tags 303020 + moreinfo thanks Hi Cameron and thanks for using backup-manager. > I recently installed backup-manager. Everything seemed to work okay. > However, I needed to tweak a couple of things, and I used > dpkg-reconfigure for this purpose, which causes my curr

Bug#303020: backup-manager eats a whole partition

2005-04-03 Thread Cameron Horsburgh
Package: backup-manager Version: 0.5.5-7 I recently installed backup-manager. Everything seemed to work okay. However, I needed to tweak a couple of things, and I used dpkg-reconfigure for this purpose, which causes my current problem. I have the software backup to /var/backups which resides on