On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 05:12:24PM -0700, Alex Mandel wrote: > Boot a live disk(Knoppix, Ubuntu etc). Check to make sure that the disk > is really full. I think you have to mount it first before you can run > this command.
Alternatively, you can log in to a text console. GDM may provide an option for switching to one, but in any case you should be able to type [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F1] to switch to one. (And [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [F7] to go back to the GDM login screen.) You can then use handy Unix command-line tools to figure out what's going on and clean things up, e.g.: > df -h To show how much disk space is free, in human terms (e.g., MB, GB, KB, etc.). As well as: ls -l ...to see a list of files in the current directory. Or: ls -l --sort=size | head ...to see the top offenders, in terms of file size, in the current directory. cd somedir cd .. cd ~ cd / ...to change into, and out of, sub-directories, go home, and go to the root of your filesystem, respectively. And of course: rm somefile.xyz ...to remove a particular file. Or: mv somefile.xyz /media/whatever/ ...to move files to some external drive, flash disk, etc. You can also figure out what sub-directories are files taking up the most space: du -s * (du = "disk use", -s = "summary") Some files may be in hidden directories, such as stuff in your browser cache, etc. du -s .* ls -al ls -al --sort=size | head Good luck! -- -bill! "Tux Paint" - free children's drawing software for Windows / Mac OS X / Linux! Download it today! http://www.tuxpaint.org/ _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
