> Your best bet is to reinstall. Next time giving / a lot more > space, and /home a lot less. OR, just avoid the issue altogether and
I'd have to disagree. Look at the df report - she only has 3% used in /home. Sure, home could be lessened but I don't think that's the issue here. 525megs (what is left on /) should be enough space and I doubt the login problem is an issue. What could be at issue is not enough inodes if a particular file can't be created during a login process, or maybe per- missions (one reason to wonder if she could log in as root but not as a regular user). > install everything in one big / . You could do this on hda7 and Not a very good idea. That could lead to lots of problems. One should at least segregate /home onto another partition, and it makes good sense to have multiple partitions. A drawback of course to that approach is that the new person doesn't really have a good idea of the space requirements for the various partitions. Having separate partitions facilitates upgrading too - I can keep my local stuff out of the way of Mandrake for instance. > keep hda5 for storing backups of /home and other stuff. Good setup > for a single user desktop. I went for a rather large / for that reason, and it's a good one. Saves wear and tear on the tape drive :). In converting over to reiserfs there's enough room to tar up a 5gig /home among other things :). > Tom Brinkman Galveston Bay, USA
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