HELP!! No disk space?

[JayInSAT]

I can't get X to start...apparently this has something to do with "/" having no free space. How can I recover my data from /Home using the shell? I'd like to back it up to my network server (Win2K) but I'm not sure how to access that from the shell either. Would I be able to access my files on this drive if I install another HD (master to my current) and reinstall Mandriva there?

[JayInSAT]

Update... deleted a bunch of junk out of /tmp, still shows 0 free space on verbose startup. Also says something about Dazuko and that it can't open default font "fixed".

[rameshwar]

Hello,
What distribution of linux are you using? Can you provide me the partition details so that i can help you. Regarding the font "fixed" issue, does the screen reads something like

Fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'
Could not init font path element unix/:7100, removing from list!

while you start X server?

[JayInSAT]

Mandriva 2006 Powerpack

from df -H
/dev/hda1 6.2GB 6.0GB used 0 avail /
/dev/hda6 114GB 12GB used 102GB avail /home

Error msgs:
could not init font path element unix/:-1, removing from list
fatal server error:
could not open default font 'fixed'

[rameshwar]

Can you provide me the output of

command : du -sh /*
fdisk -l
do it as root

[Kojak]

If your drive is really full, clear the /var/log/messages file. It is probably huge and most of its content obsolete by now). You can do this e.g. using a live-CD if you prefer to do it that way instead of doing it from cli.

[JayInSAT]

Deleted /var/log/messages file. Still 0.

from du -sh /*:
5.5M /bin
3.0M /boot
432K /dead.letter
2.6M /dev
51M /etc
12G /home
8.0K /initrd
34M /lib
16K /lost+found
12K /mnt
311M /opt
513M /proc
4.0M /root
7.5M /sbin
0 /sys
36K /tmp
4.8G /usr
375M /var

from fdisk -l:
/dev/hda1 * 1-764 6136798+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 765-14946 113916915 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 765-904 1124518+ 82 Linux swap/Solaris
/dev/hda6 905-14946 112792333+ 83 Linux

[Kojak]

4.8 GB at /usr? wow...

I guess you will need to delete some files at your /home partition in order to get the beast running again. If you have a Knoppix CD or a USB bootable distro like DSL, you can use them for copying/burning stuff onto CDs and/or cleaning up the drive. Other option: Use a second computer, mount full drive in a network and clean the drive.

[JayInSAT]

Thanks for the Knoppix tip...I'm keeping my Knoppix CD in with my other restore/backup DVDs. I was able to back up the files I needed to keep, now I'm doing a fresh reinstall. I'm not installing the things I know I won't need (Gnome, IceWM, etc.) and now I know better than to extract to /tmp!

Thanks, everyone, I really appreciate the help!

[elidio]

Im using linux from Mandrake 9, and i have some problems with the default instalation too. This instalation make a partition to root directory( / ) and other to the home dir.

Usually i have problems with PostgreSql, when i tried to make large query request. So, i decide install the partition with the graphic tool and chose all HD space for root directory and no home partition (use the clasical directory tree).

Actualy i use Mandriva 2006 and with these instalation, and active the auto delete /tmp directory every time when i boot, and i have no more disk space problems.

Regards