[SOLVED] Re: HELP! Mandriva 2010.0 Free (GNOME) Reports root ( / ) 100% full

G'day Folks,

Well, panic stations is over! ;-))) I managed to fix the problem. I
had to run drakbackup again with root privileges from the 'System /
Administration / drakbackup menu. I went thro' all of the config
options with the wizard -- selected backup to DVD-R. Well even tho' I
DID have a valid blank DVD-R in the DVD-R drive, the process aborted a
drakbackup crashed. Remember that the root file system is 100% full at
this stage. The estimated size of the backup was around 2.4GB IIRC.

When I attempted to reboot, the system would not boot off the HDD. I
the inserted the boot installation DVD-R which I had used to install
the system to start with. The is NO option for booting into a Live
Mandriva 2010.0 Free OS System on the boot dvd. I was mistaken,
because I thought that that was an option.

My desktop was not even getting to a point where I could choose a
Kernel to boot from. I did get some terminal output printed on my
monitor. But no command prompt and no login prompt. It just stopped
the system with some message like 'INT 5 : STOPPED' (or something to
that effect. I know that the number 5 was in the message. It was a
very brief message. And the message meant nothing to me. Something
about it couldn't mount the partition containing the system because it
was full and there was not enough space to mount it. Well, at least
that made sense!

Any then I inserted the Mandriva 2010.0 Free 32 bit installation
bootable dvd. Then I used the Rescue System option and followed the
bouncing ball.

Eventually I booted to a command prompt and I then basically did these commands:

cd /var/lib/drakbackup
ls -al

(listed some huge files beginning with backup.*)

rm backup*

(entered y when prompted to delete the backup* files)

reboot

System then rebooted as normal to the login screen and the system was
happy again!!! ;-)))

Thank you, Mandriva folk !!!  ;-)))

What I don't understand is; I know that there were some large backup*
files somewhere on my system, but I don't know where they were. Maybe
I should have used the find or locate command/s to find them. I didn't
think of that. It would probably have saved me a lot of time if I
simply found the offending files then deleted them with nautilus or
other program.

Oh well... I guess you live and learn. At least I didn't need to
reinstall my OS to fix the problem. ;-) That would have been an
absolute last resort. Especially since even with the root being 100% I
could still use the system and even browser the internet with firefox
and post my gmail messages to these e-lists. So, you see, my system
was not badly broken. Just needed some fine tuning. *SMILE*

Cheers!!! I hope that your Mandriva and Linux GNOME experiences are
fruitful and rewarding! Computing is meant to be fun and enjoyable;
otherwise what's the point.

Enjoy! :-) Happy Hacking!

PEW

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On 11 March 2010 15:07, Peter Williams <[email protected]> wrote:
> G'day Gnome List Folk,
>
> ;-)))
> { Sorry in advance if anyone is offended by this crosspost, but I need
> an answer to this problem }
>
> Below is a copy of a message which I posted to
> newbie-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected] (the Mandriva newbie list) is morning about
> my problem with my Mandriva 2010 Free system running GNOME on my
> desktop pc.
>
> I've seen a few posts referring to the problem -- and even some where
> it was solved... But I couldn't figure out how they solved the
> problem.
>
> Note at one point I saw the system boot up and tell me that it had
> deleting the offending block of space (files?) on the root filesystem.
> Approx 660GB which would be correct. Only problem is, it didn't
> really, truly delete it -- it only THOUGHT that it had deleted it. I
> need to somehow force the system to delete it. Maybe boot to the
> oldest installed Kernel ?!?
>
> Looking forward to your feedback. I expect it will be simple to fix --
> but I'm just a humble newbie who doesn't know what he's doing. ;-)))
>
> Love PEW
> XOX
>
> Fond Regards, Peter Eric (aka 'pew') WILLIAMS
> Hobart, Tasmania, Australia -- phone (03) 6236-9675
> My free websites are:
> http://pewink.org   (and)
> http://pewslinuxvault.googlepages.com
>
> ------------------
>
> Subject: HELP! Mandriva 2010.0 Free reporting root ( / ) 100% full
> From: Peter Williams <[email protected]>
> To: newbie-4qZELD6FgxheH41UXmfQsti2O/[email protected]
> Date:11 March 2010 09:37
>
> Hello Mandriva people,
>
> Firstly, I'd like to thank and congratulate the folk at Mandriva HQ
> who have developed and documented and excellent OS -- I referring to
> Mandriva 2010.0 Free 32 bit -- which I use.
>
> Running the Disk Usage Analyser from the GNOME GUI, it reports this:
>
> Total filesystem capacity 100% 913GB
> Total filesystem usage 1.4% 12.7 GB
>
<snip>

-- 
Fond Regards and Best Wishes,
    PEW { Peter Eric Williams }
from Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
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