redhat won't start disk is full 100%

ikkefrans · 11-05-2008, 07:45 AM

I was copying some files to hard disk, but the disk became full 100% accedantaly i have the system reboot in stat removing the files. now the machine is starting till i get the following message

RED HAT LINUX RELAESE 8.0 (psyche)
kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686
local host login:

and then he start all over again becomming the same mesagge.
Can someone help me what to do about it.
The machine is always very stable, but now i have this problem.

ikkefrans · 11-05-2008, 07:47 AM

I was copying some files to hard disk, but the disk became full 100% accidentally i have the system reboot in stat removing the files. now the machine is starting till i get the following message

RED HAT LINUX RELAESE 8.0 (psyche)
kernel 2.4.18-14 on an i686
local host login:

and then he start all over again becoming the same message.
Can someone help me what to do about it.
The machine is always very stable, but now i have this problem.

muha · 11-05-2008, 08:37 AM

Boot with a livecd like knoppix and delete files: http://www.knoppix.org/
Afterwards reboot with Red Hat.

Alternative to livecd is to boot to single-user mode: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/l...ng-single.html

amani · 11-05-2008, 09:05 AM

Instead of 'single', you can append 'runlevel 2' to the kernel line. There are other possible variants.

For deleting the relevant commands are rm -f <filename> and rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty <directory name>

marozsas · 11-05-2008, 09:48 AM

You need to start your system in "single user mode" (at grub menu press the space bar at fedora entry, then type "e" for linux entry, and "e" again in the line it starts with "kernel". remove "rhgb quiet" and replace it for a single "s", without the quotes, and press enter. now press "b" to boot on the "kernel" line) and mount the disk manually.
After removing the files you copied on the wrong place, umount the disk you mounted before and reboot your machine. This time it must starts fine.

amani · 11-05-2008, 09:53 AM

DUPLICATE thread!

XavierP · 11-05-2008, 02:04 PM

Since both threads have answers, I have merged them. In future, just post once. If you think you have posted a duplicate thread, just hit report and request your own thread be closed.

That said, welcome to LQ