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Heh, more harddrive issues. But this one is perplexing. After getting the 'unable to write to /tmp; x session may exit with an error' message, I did a little research ...
  1. 06-08-2006 #1
    Quaenorde
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    Clean-sweep the Root Partition..?



    Heh, more harddrive issues. But this one is perplexing.

    After getting the 'unable to write to /tmp; x session may exit with an error' message, I did a little research and someone said that the fact that their root partition was full. So I checked mine, and sure enough, it was full.

    But now I'm puzzled. I keep my system files in seperate partition than the files I acquire, and I haven't installed anything recently, so why is it just now giving me this error/being full? The tmp folder is empty..what can I clean up/remove that's uneccessary for proper function and won't kill my whole boot process? Where can I find temporary files that need purging?

    I'm running Mepis 3.3.1.
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    An easy thing to do would be to clean the .deb packages files (sort of installation files, totaly useless to you):
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    apt-get clean
    and even
    Code:
    apt-get autoclean
    Plus, can you post the output of
    Code:
    df -h
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    Whee, you again. Thanks for your consistant help.

    I entered the commands as you gave them, the first one didn't return anything..was I supposed to add some variable to that? Entering the second returned :
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done

    So I assume it did something..

    And here are the results for df -h:
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/hda1 3.0G 2.9G 0 100% /
    tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
    /dev/hda3 52G 33G 17G 67% /home
    /dev/hdd1 115G 99G 16G 87% /mnt/hdd1
    /dev/hdb2 37G 23G 15G 61% /mnt/hdb2
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    Quote Originally Posted by Quaenorde
    I entered the commands as you gave them, the first one didn't return anything..
    That's normal. It isn't suppose to return anything.

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    /dev/hda1 3.0G 2.9G 0 100% /
    This is way too small for a root partition. You would need around 7G there (instead of 3G). I see you have plenty of space left in your /home partition. So I would suggest, make some backups (just to be on the safe side) and then use a LiveCD (like GParted) to resize your root and /home partition.

    http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
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    Alrighty, wish I'd known these things when I was initially installed Linux.

    Either way, my system is up and running, many thanks.
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