'Root is full' problem [solved]

[Colin Law]

On 6 July 2015 at 16:02, R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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

Is it possible that you copied (or ran a command that achieved that)
data to the mount point while the disk was not mounted there?  I think
you mentioned scripts that expect the disk to be mounted there, if you
ran the script when it was not mounted could that explain it?

Colin