On Tuesday 20 September 2011 20:19:30 Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 20 September 2011 16:31:26 Lisi wrote: > > 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!!) > > > > 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. :-( > > > > Lisi > > hapened to me and some friends. Then upgrade dont go to nicely!!! > Got out of it 2 ways, depending on the hard drive configuration: > > If you have LVM, you need a livecd from, say debian, and use it to resize > your partitions, then you can take time to do your clean up. To resize it > you need lvm tools which are not present in a basic live cd, so you have to > install them after you boot whith your cd. > > If you have a basic fs, then gparted-live should do the job of resizing. > > A third way (never worked for me, but it is still worth trying, as it is > less painful, was already mentioned by Cameleón, is to use the 5% reserved > for admin. > Unfortunatly, I dont remember the command line for that, someone can help? > Thierry
Thanks, all of you. :-) Unfortunately my original email, now I reread it, was less that totally informative. :-( My / does not contain /home, which is on its own large drive. It contains everything else. hda1 is /, hda2 is swap. My / has been trundling along at around 30% full for years. Now it has suddenly filled up completely. The most likely explanation is that I accidentally copied a large directory, say, /home onto hda1. This has happened before, but it has been easy to find and put right. This time I can't find it. I daren't just wholesale start deleting things on /, and even if I can salvage a few gig from swap, it won't be much because it is not a large disk. It doesn't need to be normally! Once I have solved the keyboard problem, I'll have a look both using GParted and using a general purpose live CD. I'll ask about the keyboard problem on a British list rather than an international one. I am more likely to get an answer that I understand, since it is a problem that we all face: how to get a pipe, working from a live CD, using a uk keyboard. Thanks again for all your help so far. Lisi -- 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/201109202101.09149.lisi.re...@gmail.com