[SOLVED] Oops! Full disk after copy partition attempt...

[buccaneere]

I tried to copy FROM disk 2, TO a blank CD, the Vista boot loader, but the task did not finish, and I got some errors too...

How do I terminate this task?

chuckbhp@chuckbhp-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2              83G   83G     0 100% /
varrun                982M  236K  982M   1% /var/run
varlock               982M     0  982M   0% /var/lock
udev                  982M   64K  982M   1% /dev
devshm                982M   40K  982M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   982M   39M  943M   4% /lib/modules/2.6.24-21-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb2             8.2G  6.5G  1.8G  79% /media/HP_RECOVERY
/dev/sdb1             104G   32G   73G  31% /media/disk
overflow              1.0M   40K  984K   4% /tmp
chuckbhp@chuckbhp-laptop:~$

[devils casper]

Execute du -m command to check which file taking most of space. Check du command's manual for more options.

[buccaneere]

I'm pretty sure the problem is because I designated the partition incorrectly, that I wanted to copy (I designated the entire 120G disk).

I need to know how to stop the task, which I guess is still running, and THEN where the data is to delete. Right now, I think it is awaiting to be burned to disc...

[buccaneere]

Anybody?

I'm needin' to know if the copy process is still tryin' to execute, before I try to delete the error files...

[devils casper]

Execute top command or check Process Manager. If copy process is still running, kill it.

[buccaneere]

No cp process listed in processes, but trackerd is still peggin' the CPU, and resources shows 2 users (duo-core CPU).

I found a file that was about 67G, and deleted it, but still df -h shows 100% capacity...

[Jonathan183]

Did you delete through GUI or command line ... was it just moved to trash ? Were you doing the transfer as root ? ... I think the last few % disk space is available for system only (but will include root) allowing you to fix the live system as root.

I only ran out of disk space in root once (so far) but shutdown the system and booted from a live CD to shuffle files about - I just thought there was less chance of me trashing the system that way by really running out of space on the hard drive.

[devils casper]

I agree with Jonathan183. You should use LiveCD. Check /vat/cache/apt/archives folder too.

[buccaneere]

Did you delete through GUI or command line ... was it just moved to trash ? Were you doing the transfer as root ? ... I think the last few % disk space is available for system only (but will include root) allowing you to fix the live system as root.

I only ran out of disk space in root once (so far) but shutdown the system and booted from a live CD to shuffle files about - I just thought there was less chance of me trashing the system that way by really running out of space on the hard drive.

gksudo nautilus

Trash is empty. Yeah the last bit of space is for system ops, and there's not enough of that, because it is jamming X-server, FF, xorg.conf, cookies management, etc., ...

[Jonathan183]

gksudo ...

looks like a live CD job to me