Stephen P. Molnar wrote: > I want to thank those of you who responded to my request for assistance. > > A number of the replies, particularly those that did not editorialize, > where useful in that they convinced me that reinstalling the OS is the > simplest remedy for the problems. > > Let us put this thread to bed and stop wasting backspace.
you're welcome, but for the life of me i can't figure out why finding a few large files on / and moving or removing them as needed to free up space isn't a quicker solution for now... anyways, good luck. :) asides follow: when i set up my new system i purposely did not include LVM because i felt i didn't need that added layer of complexity. i also didn't use separate home directories or var directories like i had on previous installs. with the price of SSDs coming down i felt that it was more important to just have everything together and if i need to create more space it will likely be easier to just get another SSD and plug it in. so my current configuration looks like: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 412282128 194153408 197116244 50% / /dev/sda3 45876068 4362484 39153472 11% /ro1-root /dev/sda1 973952 2100 971852 1% /boot/efi and i have a swap space just in case i ever need it (it rarely gets used): /dev/sda4 935546880 974608383 39061504 18.6G Linux swap my /dev/sda3 partition is for running a backup stable installation just in case i muck up the other testing/ unstable version on /dev/sda2 and need a fast way to get back on-line. as yet another backup in case i really mess up the system i have a stable installation to a bootable USB stick. if you are installing to a newer machine be sure that the EFI option is detected and used before you install as fixing it afterwards can be painful. songbird