From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 2 05:35:08 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94EE116A419 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:35:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from mail.cs.ait.ac.th (mail.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E25FD13C474 for ; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:35:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from on@cs.ait.ac.th) Received: from banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (banyan.cs.ait.ac.th [192.41.170.5]) by mail.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.1/8.12.11) with ESMTP id l925Z6QI079528 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:06 +0700 (ICT) Received: (from on@localhost) by banyan.cs.ait.ac.th (8.13.6/8.12.11) id l925Z5OH076690; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:05 +0700 (ICT) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:35:05 +0700 (ICT) Message-Id: <200710020535.l925Z5OH076690@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th> From: Olivier Nicole To: d.hill@yournetplus.com In-reply-to: <20071002052548.S57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> (message from Duane Hill on Tue, 2 Oct 2007 05:28:08 +0000 (UTC)) References: <94136a2c0710012212x506ebc0ajf76ef69ec2f36720@mail.gmail.com> <20071002051809.R57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> <94136a2c0710012223q64102a41y93f3f983fcfc0137@mail.gmail.com> <20071002052548.S57595@duane.dbq.yournetplus.com> X-Virus-Scanned: on CSIM by amavisd-milter (http://www.amavis.org/) Cc: zszalbot@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: determining the space used in / partition X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:35:08 -0000 > One thing that comes to my mind. Each Sunday I have a script which > makes a full dump of the HD to a back-up USB drive. Last weekend > someone cleaining the computer room, must have accidentally powered > off the USB drive. As a result, the dump has not been completed > because the USB drive was not mounted at that time. I use cron for > this task. Does it matter could have caused this? Depending how you make your dump, to a file or to a drive. If you dump to a file in the USB drive and if the USB drive was not mounted, the dump probably tried to save its data where the USB drive was suipposed to be. If you mount your USB drice in /mnt/usbck, the dump has gone to /mnt/usbck, that is in the root partition. Olivier