Cant log into gnome

[Leskali]

Some files is really eating up my disk space...

error msg:

mkdtemp: no disk space left

[bigtomrodney]

First places to check are the /tmp directory and /var/cache/apt/archive. You can use ctrl+alt+F1 to log into a terminal, and the commands du and df should help (disk usage and disk free respectively). A good command to start with is

sudo apt-get clean

which will dump and old .deb package from the apt archive directory for you.

[Leskali]

i tried sudo apt-get clean....

error msg:

mkdtemprivate socket dir : no space left on device..

how do you use the du/df command to list down the files in the folders and their
disk space usage???

[engineuity]

du - is for showing disk usage. Mainly a percentage of the spaces
to list the files in the folders/disks/wherever:

ls -lRh
If you do a man on ls you can see what these flags mean.

[Leskali]

actually nothing is eating up my space... but i don really know whats the error though...but thanks for the help anyway.. i reformatted my ubuntu and now its working