!!Where is my 2G? - THANKS

[ben darby]

* Brian Astill wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 00:32, Matthew Kuiken wrote:
> >  To check, I would try booting in recovery mode, so that
> > you are the root user in a console, and home is not being used
> > for anything.  At this point, umount /dev/hdb7.
> > Change to the home directory, and anything that is in there
> > (except . and ..) are files that will take up space, but not be
> > accessible while home is mounted.  Deleting them should get
> > your space back.
> 
> Obviously, Matthew is a genius - or I am!
> I did as I thought I had done before - this time in recovery mode, 
> following Matt's advice.  My contribution was to reboot 
> using "shutdown -rF now" which forces a filecheck.  That happened 
> and fsck wanted to reboot again - and check the fs again.  After 
> this, Dapper did NOT complain I didn't have a /home directory AND 
> I now have 3.3G free on hda2.  Yeah!
> 

3rd time lucky i guess? just a word of advice next time you have an
issue try to stick to just the one thread as it gets difficult to follow
5 different ones with references to each in the other, thats what threading
and quoting are for.


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ben darby
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