> I did it this time. I couldn't log in this morning at all. Rec. the msg: > exited with non-zero status > Please contact your system administrator.
Yeah, did you ring yourself up? :) Looking briefly at your 'df' report, there *should* be enough space so that the message should not appear - I don't think that the message in itself is space related. Your / is at 84% which is all right; if it was at 100% I'd panic. Were you able to login as root and not as a user? The system does leave some space reserved as root just for cases like this. > file and not being able to access DrakConf and I can email again so they > were all related afterall. If you have a rather large inbox you need space in order to store a backup copy of it, depending on what mail reader you use. That may not be of issue here but it's something I run up against from time to time when I use 'elm'. A general tip - you can use 'du' on parts of your / filesystem to find out where the space is being used, and then attempt to figure out what to get rid of. > And what else is safe to delete to free up space? Well, /tmp is all right - some stuff in there are sockets for X and other things (orbit-root etc) and those don't take up any space. You shouldn't have a whole lot of stuff in /tmp (again use 'du /tmp' to see where the usage is). /var is also a good choice for pruning logs, but the system usually takes care of that for you - although in one recent instance, when I was installing a corrupt copy of StarOffice 6, my /var partition filled all the way up because of a runaway logging process :(. How did yuo install Mandrake? Did you select everything, or did you use a smaller subset of 'everything'? If you did 'everything' there are a few things you can remove safely, such as documentation, since you can read the docs on the CDs. Back when I was running redhat, I found loads of different Howto's and other documents in different languages, and in different formats (dvi, ps, html, etc.) and that was a waste of disk resources. I managed to free up over 60 megs of stuff by getting rid of that stuff. > This is what I have: > /dev/hda5 3.4G 2.7G 525M 84% / 525megs should be enough room left over and that doesn't count the reserved space. (If you are using ext2 it reserves 5% of space for the root user. If you are using reiserfs, I don't know what its defaults are, if any. But on such a large volume, 5% may be excessive, and you can lower that percentage with 'tunefs'.)
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