On Wednesday 21 September 2011 13:26:56 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > This thread has been going on too long Lisi. Let's get this fixed > already. :) Run these commands to see if you've run out of free space > or run out of inodes: > > # df -h -x tmpfs > # df -i -h -x tmpfs
Thanks, Stan. Your concern is much appreciated Mea culpa. I went to bed - I was running out of matchsticks to use to hold my eyelids open - and have been tied up all morning. I admit to having been somewhat swamped in knowing what to try first!! When my attempt to use a live CD foundered on my less than perfect knowledge of a US keyboard, I next tried GParted, which had also been suggested. (I couldn't use the live CD because I couldn't find the pipe. I now have, thanks to Dom. It is where the tilda is on my keyboard.) Overnight I resized the / partition to take the rest of that hard drive. I had used only half of it to leave room for a dual boot if I should ever want one. So now things are working again, but I would still like to know what went wrong, and shall work through all the suggestions until either I solve what went wrong or I run out of things to try. Therefore: Tux:/home/lisi# df -h -x tmpfs Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 73G 30G 41G 42% / /dev/sda1 231G 38G 182G 17% /home Tux:/home/lisi# df -i -h -x tmpfs Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/hda1 4.7M 171K 4.5M 4% / /dev/sda1 15M 91K 15M 1% /home Tux:/home/lisi# So it wasn't inodes. 30 G was the size of the original partition, so it still thinks that the 30G was all used up. As I try the other things, I'll report back. If nothing else, it might be useful to someone looking in the archives. It may, of course, remain one of life's little mysteries. I have learnt two things at least: Keep an eye on your / partition and not just on /home. That too was filling up, but I knew and did something about it. Use Clonezilla or something - and set-selections, because you never know when you may need to reinstall. Many thanks to all of you. I really, really appreciate what you all did to help me. 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/201109211442.45191.lisi.re...@gmail.com