Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Ian Coetzee]

On 05/03/2010 01:45, Steve Flynn wrote:
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> On 04/03/10 23:39, Keith Clark wrote:
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>> 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.
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> boot to recovery mode.
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> post output of "dh -a -h"
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Did you mean "df -a -h" ?

# dh -a -h
dh: cannot read debian/control: No such file or directory

# dh --help
Usage: dh [options]

   dh is a part of debhelper. See debhelper(7)
   and dh(1) for complete usage instructions.

Regards
Ian
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> Write the bugger down if needs be.
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>> 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.
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>> I've tried a live CD and no matter what I delete (up to 65 GBs) still no
>> free space.
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> 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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