Zero Bytes free on my hard drive

[Keith Clark]

On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 17:12 -0500, J wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 16:53, Keith Clark <keithclark at k-wbookworm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I had to delete another 50 GB of data to get my machine to boot.  I
> > installed ncdu and ran it.  No unexpected big files found.  Only 262 GB
> > of 448 GB, yet Nautilus reports only 41.2 GM free on "File System".
> 
> Out of curiosity, what are you using to get into the disk to delete
> things if you can't boot the system?
> 
> Are you using the Live CD?
> 
I'm using Recovery Mode bootup.  Then terminal session with network
access.


> What happens if you try a live disk from a different distro like
> Fedora, or a different Ubuntu based distro like Crunchbang, or perhaps
> Knoppix?
> 
> Do they ALL report weird disk usage like that? Or are you only seeing
> this weird usage in the installed system that's giving you problems?
> 

I only have the one distro at the moment.  I will download and burn
another one to test things out.

Keith