I'm out of space on / issue

[Aragorn]

@whm1974

I’m trying to backup /home/user to my backup drive using MC(Midnight Commander) and shortly after it starts I keep getting the Message I’m out of space on / .

Now I have / and /home on separate partitions. I recovered some space by remove stuff using Pamac but what is causing the lack of space in the first place?

I am guessing that your backup drive wasn’t actually mounted, and therefore, that instead of writing to the backup drive, you were in fact filling up the directory on the root filesystem that is meant to serve as the drive’s mountpoint.

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