I am running Suse 8.1 on a AMD XP 1.8, 512 MB Ram, w/ 2 20GB HDD's


As if late, I am getting error messages stating that there is 'not enough disk space to......' whatever it/I am doing. Here are my partitions:

HDA1 -fat32 size 18.6 GB with 5.7 GB free (M$9x)
HDB1 -reiserfs size 15.6 GB with 12.6 GB free (linux)
HDB2 -vfat16 siz 2 GB with 1.7 GB free (dos)
shmfs type-? size 251MB with 251MB free

Got this information from Block Devices in Control Center.

ANY HELP/SUGGESTIONS/IDEAS/TIPS/ETC? PLEASE RESPOND.. I do not want to reinstall (again - for the 5th time)

What is giving you those error messages? When do you get them, and what are you attempting to do at the time? A specific example might help us to figure out why you're getting those...

Sorry - should have mentioned that...

Here is an example:
I logged on (graphical mode) for the first time with a new user and it said it did not have enough diskspace to creat "home/name-of-user" ...(the new user was going to be the third user besides root) Also when I logged on with the main account I use, it gave me some message about it

BUT - I am currently downloading a 600MB ISO image onto my desktop with no problem....

I am not too sure about this, since I only have a couple users on my box, but I believe you need to create a home directory for a user before logging in as that user. So, as root:

1. Add a new user (using useradd, userdrake or what-have-you), say, fred.
2. Add fred to any groups you need him to be in (probably you should at least have a group called fred also, which only fred is a member of)
3. Create a home directory for fred: mkdir /home/fred
4. Make sure fred owns and can use his own home directory: chown fred /home/fred, chgrp fred /home/fred
5. Log in as fred

The reason for this (and maybe also the reason for your error message) is that if /home/fred does not exist before fred logs in, it needs to be created, and since fred does not have permission to write to /home, it gives you an error.

I could be way off base on this though Like I said, I only have a couple of users. Try the above and see if it helps though.

normally home directoies will be created automaitcally at first log in (via a PAM module) so that shouldn't be the problem. in a terminal run "df -h" and show the entire output here, maybe you have installed a user quota or such like?

Here it is exactly:

File System size used avail %used mounted on
/dev/hdb1 16G 3.6G 13G 23% /
/dev/hda1 19G 13G 5.8G 70% /windows/C
/dev/hdb3 2.0G 279M 1.7G 14% /windows/D
shmfs 252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm

and that is it. I did see something about installing a 'disk quota' package, but it didn't sound like I would need that, thus its not installed.

Also, in ref. to the idea before that... the home/'user' directory exists, and I tried the "chusr /home/user"

thanks so much for helping.. In the process I'm learning some basic command lines too!!!!!!

Thank you to all that helped, and to those who thought about helping.. I appreciate your input and time....Tom

Glad to hear it! Just out of curiosity, what did you do to fix it?

I'll be honest, I have no idea how (yet), but under my user I SU'ed and did the 'chusr' thing, double checked that the folder existed, logged off, logged back on using the user in question, and WHAMMO! It worked... Thanks again all!..