Perhaps you could browse this USB flash drive from Puppy Linux Live CD to do your housekeeping? I had good luck a number of times on all types of drives and flavors of OS or file systems so far.
Good luck, Joan in Reno --- On Mon, 10/18/10, Darksyde <[email protected]> wrote: From: Darksyde <[email protected]> Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: Cannot boot USB-based OS To: [email protected] Date: Monday, October 18, 2010, 11:10 AM --- In [email protected], J <dreadpiratej...@...> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 15:23, Darksyde <m_alexande...@...> 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 > Lessee...I purchased the drive (from OSDisc I believe) and it came preloaded with "Gloria" and configured to be persistent. "Properties" shows that it has 1 Gig free of the 3.7 total. All apps were installed using either the standard repositories or "apt-get install". It is most definitely possible that I overloaded it, though, as mentioned, it supposedly has 1 Gig free. I'm with you on that one, no matter what "Properties" shows, so I figure there's got to be a way to get in there and do some house-cleaning via the terminal. I have unmounted it and tried again with no luck, though I never tried physically removing and replacing it as I didn't think that would make any difference. Mark [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ 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/
