On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 15:23, Darksyde <[email protected]> wrote: > I have Mint 7, Gloria, on a persistent USB drive and cannot boot it. All > goes well, even to the "From freedom came elegance" screen with the status > bar showing progress. > Then it hits a snag and a list of error messages come up, all with "no > available space" or "no space remaining", something like that, and an "Error > 28". "Properties" of the > drive show that there is 1 gig (out of 3.7) free, though this, I assume, > means little or nothing. Filesystem type shows "msdos"- should that be the > case? I never noticed > before. Though it probably doesn't matter, this is a purchased distro and > the drive is a Kingston.
How much RAM do you have? IIRC, most of the live distros load their filesystems into ramdisks, and if you've added stuff to the original installation, you could be filling up the ramdisk, thus the out of space error. And msdos is typical for flash drives... that or vfat... they should all be generally formatted in fat32 these days. > I've used this drive many times and I have loaded a bunch of apps into it, > but how do I access it to delete some files assuming this is necessary? When > I open it, the usual > files are visible (Casper, etc.) but nothing shows that (in my opinion) > could be deleted. I assume that this is another case where the CLI will come > in handy, no? > FWIW, there's nothing on this drive that I can't live without, as I recall, > but the solution may come in handy in future when I plan to use external > drives more for an extra layer > of security. How did you "load a bunch of apps into it"? Was the USB stick installed with persistent storage? How much? Could you have more stuff than you have persistent storage? How did you create the stick to begin with? Well, maybe some of that will give you a good starting point. Cheers, jeff ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [email protected] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
