suddenly filling of hd and no access to x
Derek Broughton
derek at pointerstop.ca
Tue Sep 22 02:28:16 UTC 2009
NoOp wrote:
> On 09/21/2009 05:43 PM, Accessys at smart.net wrote:
>>
>> oh yes can boot up from live CD into xwindow but don't have
>> permissions to delete any files or empty trash. can't get to root
>> either.
>
> Knoppix
If he's got an Ubuntu live CD, of course he can get to root. Just open a
terminal window, or ctrl-alt-f1.
My vote is for strigi or whatever gnome uses instead. strigi used to fill
up my wife's drive even though it was supposedly turned off. So I
terminated it with extreme prejudice, and no more space problems...
--
derek
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