suddenly filling of hd and no access to x

[Accessys@smart.net]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Derek Broughton wrote:

> NoOp 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.

can get to the files from the live CD but won't let me delete them and
can't find the trash can to try and empty it, in the old kde it
refused to let me empty it so that would have made a few gb of space
to work with at least.

> > 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.

I can get to root, but even in root it won't let me do anything to the
hard drive files saying I don't have permissions (guess that is to
protect things while using a live CD but stops me from making critical
repairs)

> 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...

what is strigi????  never loaded it to my knowledge (I use KDE)

Bob

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