[PLUG] Possible reasons why tarball creation would fail

[Larry Brigman]

Running out of space on the /tmp mount point?

On Sep 25, 2016 5:11 PM, "Rich Shepard" <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

>    Prior to upgrading the OS version on my Dell E5410 laptop I tried to
> backup everything in ~/ to a 2.7T external hard drive with 22M of data on
> it. After deleting cruft from ~/ du -sh told me my home directory contained
> 40G of data.
>
>    With /mnt/hd/caddis/ (the laptop's host name) as the pwd I entered the
> command:
>    tar czvf caddis-home-2016-09-24.tgz /home/rshepard/
>
> The system churned away for a long time (I didn't time it, but it would
> have
> been more than a coffee break in length) and finally exited with an error
> message about exiting after prior errors occurred. Tried this again with
> the
> same results.
>
>    What might cause such a response?
>
> Rich
>
>
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