Re: 100% used / file system. Help!
On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:31:26 +0100, Lisi wrote:
Lisi, calm down and don't forget the good manners of sending plain text
formatted e-mails ;-)
> I have accidentally filled something, that I shouldn't have, on my root
> directory, and have now got a 100% usage of the disk containing my /.
> This is causing me problems. (Now there's a surprise!!)
What filesystem?
Ext3/4 always reserves -by default- 5% of the partition space for such
situations :-?
> I have no backup of my /. Yes, I know. I deserve everything I've got.
> But now that I have been given my just deserts, can any kind soul come
> to my rescue? I would be so grateful.... I may, of course, just have
> to reinstall. :-(
You can try to login as root and make any required changes/clean up from
there (yep, from command line). If that's not possible for whatever
reason, you can always boot the machine from a LiveCD, mount the "/"
partition and remove the data or work from there to make it usable again.
Greetings,
--
Camaleón
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