I have had to shelve the problem that I was working on (tho' only temporarily)
to try to solve this one:
When I installed Etch, I commented out the /home that Etch had created and
added in the (large) SATA discs I had been using for a while previously. So
my fstab looks like this:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
/dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-root / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro
0 1
/dev/hda1 /boot ext3 defaults 0 2
# /dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-home /home ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-tmp /tmp ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-usr /usr ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-var /var ext3 defaults 0 2
/dev/mapper/Happy_Tux-swap_1 none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hdd /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/hdc /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0
/dev/sdb1 /backup ext3 defaults 0 0
/dev/sda /home ext3 defaults,exec 0 0
The last two entries were copied from my previous installation, which was
working fine from that point of view at least. The /home directory was
immediately picked up and I have been using it.
But when I tried to back up as I did before, using:
cp -Rpu /home/. /backup
I got a lot of overflow errors. (Sorry, I tried, but did not succeed
capturing them. :-( )
And /home and /backup are no longer identically used up; which I would have
thought that they ought to be immediately after I have backed up, as they
always have been before.
[lisi@Tux:~]$ df /backup
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 241263968 67950076 161058308 30% /backup
[lisi@Tux:~]$ df /home
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda 241269640 69718384 159295388 31% /home
[lisi@Tux:~]$
I am at a loss to understand what is happening, and therefore to know what to
do about it or what question to ask. :-( Other than: Ought I just to
ignore it and carry on blithely?
Help! This is obviously more important than a missing plug-in, and I want to
get back to sorting out my missing plug-in now I have a chance. :-(
TIA
Lisi
