Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Strange Error -> No space left on device

[Robert Tafner]

Keith Edmunds <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 10:43:35 +0100
> Robert Tafner <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > At first it seemed clear that there is no space on device. The 
> > /temp-file became too big. But how is the system able to make a backup 
> > of /etc (last line) but not of /pulic (first line). I thought that there 
> > is too less space...
> 
> rdiff-backup requires temporary space on the system being backed up, and I
> suspect it is that that is running out of space. Once the backup of /public
> has failed, the temporary space is cleared and the backup of /etc succeeds.
> I suspect /etc is smaller than /public.
> 
> What does the output of 'df' show on the system being backed up?

The system partition (including /etc) is filled with 100%. The problem is that 
this partition has got a size of just 1 GB.
It wasn't set up by me, so I don't know the reason why it is so small...

Should then /tmp be filled with less than 100% if it is cleared during the 
backup?

Thanks
-- 
Robert Tafner
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Institute of Human Computer Interfaces
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