[sclug] Out of disk space

Stuart Major stuartmajor at phonecoop.coop
Wed Feb 14 21:53:23 UTC 2007


Hi Andy,

Thanks, I?ve managed to sort it!

Stuart.

Andy Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:52:43PM -0000, Stuart Major wrote:
>   
>> I am trying login to gdm, and get the message 'no disk space'.  I am
>> fairly sure this has to do with me setting up my back up incorrectly.  I
>> have used df -a to check and sure enough my / is full.  I have tried
>> deleting files and directories from the failsafe command line login but
>> this seems to make no difference.
>>     
>
> sudo du -xk / | sort -rn | less
>
> should show you where all the space has gone, and let you know what
> is best to delete.
>
> Cheers,
> Andy
>   



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