'Root is full' problem [solved]

[R Kimber]

On Mon, 6 Jul 2015 15:16:59 +0200
Petter Adsen wrote:

> > I've hunted for large files but can't see anything obvious.  There
> > ought to be an easy way of listing files larger than a particular
> > size (e.g. 1GB), but I don't know what it might be.
> 
> "man find".
> 
> Hint: Use "-size +1G" to find files larger than 1GiB, and "-xdev" to
> not enter other filesystems.

Many thanks.  I've located the problem, though I'm not clear how to prevent
it happening in the future.

The problem was that, somehow, the contents of the two USB drives had been
physically copied to the mount point, thus filling up the root filesystem.
Now that I've deleted the the files I'm back to normal.  Except that I'd
like to know what caused this and how I might prevent it happening again.
If anyone knows I'd be grateful

- Richard.
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Richard Kimber