ok i am not one to panic but, K3B has gone daft on me!

it's taken it upon itself to inform me of the following:

This is odd because because both kinfo centre and qtparted inform me that i have over 30 gigs of free space!

This is happening at the worst possible time EVER! i have to remaster a promo CD for some friends who have a meeting with a record company on monday coming!

PLEASE PLEASE if you can help me then i beg you do so!

Thanks

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EDIT:

P.S i have been burning cd's all weekend and this hasn't happened!

what's the output of df -h ?

Hi,
I am not at home, so I cannot check things, but perhaps there is trouble related to the "temp" directory? There is a value in the lower right hand corner for that...

Perhaps a permission or owner of a file changed?

-CD-

You may have space left (30Gb), but we need to know in which partition free space is located.

I had a similar issue some time ago when I compiled a program (OpenOffice.org), root partition (/) had no space left whereas I had space remaining on my /home partition.

Definitively output of 'df -h' will help.

Hey all sorry but in a moment of panic i forgot to click the ox that informs me instantly of replies! willysr heres the info you asked for

cooldave, i think you might you might be onto something, i cleared the entire contents of my /tmp/ directory just before this happened. However i reinstalled k3b and it didnt create any directory's in tmp so i'm kinda confused.

gegechris99 as for which partition has the space see the above response to willysr.

Thanks ppz!

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can you specify what version of K3B are you using?
even though i have smaller free space than yours, i never had this problem before

okay i'm a complete idiot

the tip cooldave gave me was pretty much bang on, K3B was trying to write to a non existant temp folder that it insisted on calling "sid" and for some strange reason it wanted it to be placed on my desktop as opposed to my /tmp/ folder.

I tried twice to tell it to write to /tmp/ but to no avail. Next i gave it the folder "sid" on my desktop and it worked. only after that would it allow me to change the default temp dir to /tmp/?


Odd but it's working now. You guys are totally amazing, thanks so so much for taking the time to help me with this, i had no idea as to where to even begin.


Your diamonds!

Thanks cooldave, willysr & gegechris99, no wonder linux rocks!

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