linux opensuse 10.1 could not start

hammam12 · 08-12-2006, 06:20 PM

Dears,
when I try to start linux opensuse 10.1, it gives me this error message :
The following installation problem was dedected while trying to start KDE:
$HOME directory )/home/hammam) is out of disk space.
KDE is unable to start

I tried to repair the system, but it aborts in the repair process.

So my quetions are:
1 - how to start the system ?
2 - how to get free spaces in home directory it is 100 % filled ?

some one help pls

... thanx
Mohammed Hammam

xode · 08-12-2006, 06:34 PM

How do you have your hard drive partitioned? What kind of permissions do you have set for /home and /home/hammam?

hammam12 · 08-12-2006, 06:35 PM

Fat32, the permisson I can't remember but hammam is a super user

xode · 08-13-2006, 01:08 AM

You don't want to have any of your linux partitions be FAT32. Linux requires that its resources have security built in to them and that can't happen with FAT32 because of how FAT32 is built. I suspect that, when you made /home a FAT32 partition, your linux responded by making that partition accessible only to root, which is the one and only super user in linux. Try making all of your linux partitions ext3 and be sure to include a swap partition as well. You will probably have to reinstall your linux.