If yoou are sure it is a backup program doing it but do not know what it is,
here is a suggestion that might help you find it. Open Synaptic and use the
search icon (not the quick search box) to search for the word backup. Look
at the results for a green box indicating a backup app that is installed.
Another thought is to look to see if a backup of some kind might be
scheduled as a cron, anacron, or at job causing it to run regularly.
On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Trent Shipley <
tshipley@deru.com> wrote:
> I followed this option and promptly discovered that I was writing backup
> files to /media/disk/ which was an alias for the main hard drive which not
> unsurprisingly eventually filled up. Of course I don't know what program is
> the culprit so it will eventually fill up again.
>
>
>
> On 08/10/2010 09:44 PM, John wrote:
>
> I usually do a find search based on file size
>
> *find / -size +1000000 -print*
>
> The above examples is any files over a GB. I usually do it as root so it
> can hit every directory. I usually start high and work my way down to see if
> I can find any files that are taking up too much space and may not be
> needed.
>
> --- On *Tue, 8/10/10, Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@yahoo.com><trent_shipley@yahoo.com>
> * wrote:
>
>
> From: Trent Shipley <trent_shipley@yahoo.com> <trent_shipley@yahoo.com>
> Subject: ext3 disk full
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 9:48 PM
>
> My 250GB ext3 disk on Ubuntu 10.4 is full. I can't find more than 20GB
> worth of data on the disk. Disk Usage Analyzer and GUI file tools show the
> disk with only 10GB free. Disk utility and e2fsck show the drive as fine so
> I can't get it to repair itself. Even so I have about 220GB of mystery data
> on the disk.
>
>
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