On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 10:15 -0400, Brad Alexander wrote:
> I think I just found it. Ironically enough, it was my workstation. I
> have an external drive that is normally plugged into my laptop for
> files I need to transport I had plugged (and left plugged) this drive
> into my desktop, which was being indexed and attempted to be backed
> up. Apparently, this filled the filesystem, and the backup never
> completed, but the files from the partial backup were apparently
> stored somewhere. Once I umounted the portable hard drive, the backup
> completed, and the drive space went back down to normal levels.
> 
> I have since commented out all of /media.

Changing the rsync flags to include --one-file-system at the top level
will stop this catching you out again, I think it should be a
configuration default.

-- 
Tim Fletcher <tim AT night-shade.org DOT uk>


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