Alex and Bill: helps from both of you are great and these nice command goodies are pretty handy for toubleshooting! Appreciating your patience to answer my naive questions, stupid me! :-)
Anyway, thanks a lot! Hai On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 8:28 PM, Bill Kendrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 > vox-tech@lists.lugod.org > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list vox-tech@lists.lugod.org http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech