[COLUG] Linux RAID problem

[tom hanlon]

Not to mention the obvious or perhaps the not so obvious. Might some 
symlinks within home or perhaps from home to the outside be causing a 
recursive copy that fills everything up? I have yet to accidently 
destroy a filesystem but more than once I have accidently begun 
recursively copying it into itself. Take a look at some of the symlink 
flags in the commands that you are using. After a few seconds of a cp 
-R command not returning the cursor you log back in on another console 
to see what is happening, quickly run "top" to see that "cp" and little 
else is running. YIKES !!

I dunno my confusing problems usually come down to simple mistakes.

Tom