Re: [BackupPC-users] Disk space used far higher than reported pool size

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Timothy J Massey <tmassey AT obscorp DOT com>

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Wed, 30 Oct 2013 09:33:25 -0400

Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> wrote on 10/30/2013 09:18:59 AM: > Not really relevant to this thread, but I have in the past added a > empty file to each of the removable drives, then test if the file > exists before creating the archives. If the drive isn't mounted, the > file won't exist. Thus preventing that issue. > > I'm sure you've probably considered this previously already :)

Thank you for the suggestion!

My thought was to parse the output of "df /path/to/drive" and confirm that it was mounted correctly. (I already do that in the scripts I use to mount the removable drive and re-format it.) If it happened more than once or twice a year, I probably would! :)

Your way certainly works, too. Because it's the root of the removable drive, I could simply look for lost+found, too! :)

Tim Massey


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