Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

Steve Flynn anothermindbomb at gmail.com
Thu Mar 4 23:45:09 UTC 2010


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On 04/03/10 23:39, Keith Clark wrote:
> I was working away today on my computer when suddenly applications were
> saying that I was running out of hard drive space.  I tried deleting
> some files, but still zero bytes free.  I clean out my trash directories
> and still zero bytes free.

boot to recovery mode.

post output of "dh -a -h"


Write the bugger down if needs be.

> I tried to reboot, but not I cannot get the system to restart.  It just
> comes up with a generic login screen, then when I try to login in it
> says that my installation is bad and that the gnome system power setting
> are not set correctly.  I'm stuck at the login screen.
> 
> I've tried a live CD and no matter what I delete (up to 65 GBs) still no
> free space.

Ye gods - that's about 60 gig more than I have for my entire installation.




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Steve Flynn
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