Can't login due to no disk space? How do i free some to log in??
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Can't login due to no disk space? How do i free some to log in??
It's me again with yet another question This time I run out of space and at the same time I was compiling a program and when I restarted it showed me the massage that i can't login using Gnome but if i shitch back to init 3 and start X it works fine. I tried deleting files from there but it still shows that it is full even though i freed few GB. So anyone knows how to fix it?
It's me again with yet another question This time I run out of space and at the same time I was compiling a program and when I restarted it showed me the massage that i can't login using Gnome but if i shitch back to init 3 and start X it works fine. I tried deleting files from there but it still shows that it is full even though i freed few GB. So anyone knows how to fix it?
The first thing to do is boot a live CD and run fsck against the partition. You may have lost some space in your file system when it crashed for lack of space. If so fsck should straighten that out.
# df -m
Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 48064 45716 0 100% /
/dev/sda2 92260 32714 59547 36% /fat-c
/dev/sdb1 715403 319655 395748 45% /fat-s
Where is /home partition? You should have one. Just remove needless stuff from / (/tmp or similar ). Check also /var/log for overloaded files.
I did remove files from / by logging as root in X but it seems not to effect the free space even though it is in the same partision, so just deleting doesn't help
I'll repeat again... by default, 5% of the filesystem is reserved for root. This is why you're seeing "100%" when it's really only 95% full. 5% of it is reserved for root alone.
I'll repeat again... by default, 5% of the filesystem is reserved for root. This is why you're seeing "100%" when it's really only 95% full. 5% of it is reserved for root alone.
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