title: Linux: Stopping tar command?
body: <p>Uh I badly messed up today, I was going to backup my whole website folder (public_html) and didn't realize that it was 24GB, now it's eating up disk usage and I have no idea how to stop it. The command I used was:</p>
  
  <pre><code>tar -cvpzf  /home/mywebsite/public_html/backup.tar.gz /home/mywebsite/public_html/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I deleted the existing backup.tar.gz from the directory but the command is still running and is still eating up disk space (even though the .tar.gz file no longer exists). How do I stop this?</p>