'Root is full' problem [solved]

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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 11:43 AM W Scott Lockwood III <vladinator at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 7/6/2015 10:34 AM, R Kimber wrote:
> >> This exactly. You need to add logic to your script that checks to see if
> >> >the disk is mounted. There are a lot of things you can do here - check
> >> >to see if it's mounted, try to mount it, and bail if not successful
> >> >would be my suggestion.
> > I'm using lsyncd. I'm not sure if there's a way of getting it to check
> that
> > the disk is mounted before if tries to do anything.  Maybe I need a
> different system.
> Lsyncd works great, when you know that your disks are stable and won't
> randomly disappear.
>
> One option is, if you do this regularly, but don't need it to be updated
> up to the second, just write a script to rsync it via cron. You could
> run it at whatever interval you're ok with, be that once every 5
> minutes, or once a month or whatever. This would allow you to make sure
> that the disk is there, because if it's not, lsyncd will happily just
> write all the files to local disk under the mount point, just as you
> have already seen.
>
> Another option here is to write a cron job that runs every 15 minutes or
> so, and looks for the mount. If it doesn't find it, you can have it
> email you. If it does find it, you can have it just exit.
>
> Yet another option is to setup something like Nagios and monitor the
> disks with it.
>

http://superuser.com/questions/305723/using-udev-rules-to-run-a-script-on-usb-insertion

Or with udev to only run the script when the particular drive is inserted.



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