Sorin Srbu wrote: > Ray Leventhal <> scribbled on Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:50 PM: > > >> I have additional HDDs available if growing the partition is in order >> (would appreciate pointers to that, if applicable), but I'm really >> stumped as to where the space is being eaten up. >> > > Try a yum clean all. That might help. But if it's as you say, not connected to > the internet, you probably are not running yum at all, so it might not help. > Check your temp-directories and clean out as necessary. > <snip> > Thanks to all who replied. / filled up when my nightly rsync snapshot did something which I'm still looking into. I run a nightly rsync script to make copies (to an external HDD connected via USB) of user data files: #backup to USB drive location for /home # /media/bkup is /dev/sdg1 (USB 700GB drive) rsync -av --delete /home/ /media/bkup cd Well, in /media, there were 2 folders, not just one.../bkup and /bkup_ as well as 2 .lock files. I determined which was the last complete backup and deleted the other... needless to say / space began to increase, but I'm truly puzzled about why a mount point would take up space on / when the media is external. Anyone with insight into my flawed logic, please let me know :) Thanks for all help and the ongoing knowledge gained from this list. -Ray