Hi All
Just clearing out my 'Home' folder on laptop and copying it to a
separate disk all OK.
So decided to 'Back-up' the 'Home' folder onto the NAS drive using Lucky
Backup on my Mint 16 system. (Lucky Backup is a graphical front end to
Rsync) Did a verification run to check if all OK and it was; so pressed
Backup and watched it run through the Home folder, it got to within the
last few files then reported something like "/ file system full,
operation terminated"!!
Had to run from a 'Live' disk to see what happened as the NAS drive is a
2Tb drive. It would appear that the backup was saved to the laptop's
/root partition (System partition) not the NAS! No wonder it was full
as the root partition was only 27Gb and the backup was larger than that.
Using the 'Live' disk I thought I'd removed (deleted) the backup file
from / hoping to free up space and then re-booted. Still reports system
full and looking, via Gparted, at that partition - it's still showing full?
On re-booting laptop reports quote:-
"MDM could not write a new authorisation entry to disk. Possibly out of
diskspace. Error: No space left on device".
Terminal quote then carries on with:-
[ 54.4015821 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed.
[ 54.4016501 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through.
[ 106.1986421 sd 6:o:o:o: [sdb] Asking for cache data failed.
This then carries on and nothing can be done.
Why does it not accept that the large file has been deleted and still
shows partition full?
How can I recover that partitions empty space? and get entry to the
system. I thought that deleting the file from a live system would have
given enough space back to carry on booting in.
Clive
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