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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.20.14.47...@gmail.com