alexpgp | Amateur forensics...

I do not know what happened to cause this, but the Raspberry Pi that manages my ownCloud appears to have lost its link to the disk I used to store my ownCloud files (I'm thinking, "there one minute, gone the next"), whereupon one would expect the system to stumble its way to a safe condition. (Get data. Ok. Write to disk. Ok. ... Get data. Ok. Write to disk. Error! Execute disk write error code, etc.)

Instead, files being synchronized started to get written to a new (!?) /media/cloud directory (which normally points to the disk the system could no longer find). Apparently, and I have no idea how this could happen, this folder somehow got created on the Pi's SD card!

And since the amount of data (~16 GB, as it happens) being synchronized exceeded the capacity of the 8-GB SD, the latter was eventually completely filled, causing all sorts of other problems.

I am fairly confident this is not an ownCloud error, but it doesn't change my mind about the wisdom of using the software. I agree with

platofish, who in his comment to yesterday's post, noted, "It's too unreliable to be really useful."

So it looks like BitTorrent Sync may just be the way to go, assuming I can figure out why—with gigs of data left to transfer—it chooses to not transfer any data at all.

Cheers...