Disk space

[David McGlone]

> > On Friday 21 December 2007 8:39:14 am Stew Schneider wrote:
> > > David McGlone wrote:
> > > >> Ah! But you'll notice I didn't reveal WHAT the problem was.
> > > >
> > > > I noticed.
> > > >
> > > >> And I'm not going to, either. It's the only way to preserve what
> > > >> little credibility I have on this list
> > > >
> > > > There goes open source as we know it. ;-)
> > > >
> > > > But I am curious, how did you fix it? Are you willing to say?
> > >
> > > Well, it was highly technical and clearly beyond the capabilities of
> > > the members of this list,
>
 Are you saying 2 years, 20 thousand dollars and 13 years experience didn't
 do me any good? :-(
>
> > > but, in broad terms, leaving out the quantum
> > > effects, and recognizing that a full understanding would require
> > > discussion of the Rhiemann tensor, I can say that the problem had to do
> > > with a cron backup job which *might* have run without the backup drive
> > > being mounted, leading to a situation in which a *lot* of stuff was
> > > written to the main drive, then hidden when the backup drive finally
> > > was mounted....or something....maybe it had to do with global warming.
>
 In layman terms, you had a cron job that was trying to write to an
 unmounted drive. :-0 Oh sorry, did I say that? LOL

-- 
David M.