What would cause the home dir to copy itself into itself…? It’s not the first time it happened either. Once was on Debian and this one was on MX Linux. The only thing I can think of was a screwed backup this time but…
You must log in or register to comment.
- 9 days
I’ve had that happen before when an
rsynccommand for uploading backups was doing shenanigans. I think, it choked on a very large folder, but I just excluded that folder and then it was fine. - 9 days
Check history and see I’d you ran a copy /home to ./ while in home. Or an Rsync command with the trailing vs no trailing slash
Broadfern@lemmy.worldEnglish
9 daysDo you have a second drive? I’ve had that happen when I set one up for extra storage a couple years ago


