HDD Inexplicably Full

[Scott Hayes]

If you have access to a Live CD, boot with it, do a clean up and reboot.
You can also look in you /var directory to see if there are files you no
longer need. Check your /tmp as well, in case it did not clean up from
your last session. 

Good luck.



On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 21:13 +0200, Rafiq Hajat wrote:

> Hello folks,
> Yes t'is me returning after a lengthy absence ( I was on the road)
> with a really weird problem. My hard drive is suddenly reporting zero
> free space and refuses to acknowledge all my attempts to free up space
> by deleting videos and surplus music.
> 
> I know that I had at least 30gb free but this has appeared out of the
> blue to my complete perplexity.
> I'm using Karmic 9.10 on a Compaq 6829s laptop and, aside from a few
> ongoing hassles with grub2, have generally been quite happy with it. I
> don't know what exactly info you would need to get to the bottom of
> this quandary and will humbly await your guided instructions to
> acquire the relevant data to assist diagnosis.
> I am anxiously standing by awaiting your helping hands.
> 
> Rafiq Hajat
> Executive Director
> Institute for Policy Interaction,
> P. O. Box E14, Post Dot Net,
> Blantyre - Malawi.
> Tel/Fax: +265 1 874 964
> Cell: +265 999 968 800
> www.ipimalawi.org
> 




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