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last night when i should have been sleeping i issued a command and now i'm perplexed...
i have several partitions:
/boot
/
/home
swap
i have a backup dir in /home/(USER)/backups so i wanted to restore my /root directory
i went to /home/(USER)/backups/root (which is the backup of /root). from here i issued "cp -r .* /root"
i realize that the command was then recursing through ../* and ../../* which is really bad :-)
i stopped the command when i noticed that my /home partition was almost full! how could space be taken up on /home when the target was /root ???
also, i can't find for the life of me where the space has been taken up. it almost feels like it just ruined the pointers or journals or something.
perhaps noteworthy is that /, /home, and swap are logical partitions, and /home and swap are encrypted and on /dev/mapper
any help would be great!!
Last edited by speed145a (2009-08-18 01:21:23)
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Where you root when you did this? Also specifying /root would copy to roots home directory.
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Where you root when you did this? Also specifying /root would copy to roots home directory.
I was root... never root when you are in a zombie like trance.
the fact that i specified /root as the target is what perplexed me when /home started filling up. why???
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*lol* next time, I guess you would use
cp -r .[A-z]* /root
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