/dev/sda3 37G 35G 0 100% /mnt

[Muddy Islander]

Yes. That indeed solved the problem. Thank you Marius. I just thought that I
still have 2G unused and did not realize what the problem is.

Hao

On 10/4/06, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 05:29:29PM +0000, Muddy Islander wrote:
> > I am having some problem with my Kubuntu desktop. I found some
> > applications  acting strange and rebooted the machine. It shows the
> > KDE log  in screen but KDE did not load properly. The system halted at
> > a black screen. I rebooted in rescue mode, looked around and found df
> > -h gives a stange output:  /dev/sda3    37G   35G     0 100% /home
>
> Be aware that ext2 and ext3 filesystems by default reserve 5% capacity
> for the superuser.  One of the reasons is that this helps prevent file
> fragmentation.  df subtracts the amount of reserved blocks from the free
> space (or the kernel does that before it passes the info to df).  In
> other words, it is normal that total != used + free.
>
> However your /home is out of disk space.  This is usually bad.  It is
> entirely possible that KDE wants to create some temporary files there
> and is unable to do so, and therefore login fails.  (Usually I've
> experienced this when /tmp filled up, but I wouldn't be surprised if
> a full /home has the same effect.)
>
> Log into a text console (Ctrl+Alt+F1), remove some files in /home and
> you should be able to log in into KDE.  I think.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Marius Gedminas
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