[Gllug] Black screen, probably a KDE fault.

[John Hearns]

On 31 August 2010 17:56, John G Walker <johngeoffreywalker at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> df -h rtells me that /dev/sda2 is 100% used.
> df -i tells me the inodes for that partition are only 15% full.
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> I've forgotten what I've got in /dev/sda2, but how do I find that out?

du -h  /



> I think it may be a corrupt file system, since I attempted the
> suggestion of creating a new user and logging on. It refused to do
> this, telling me that /tmp was full. This is highly unlikely,
> since /tmp is assigned to a temporary file system.

Do you mean /tmp is on a ramdisk, or is on another disk partition?


> I have the installation disk for this OS, which I hope will let me do
> a fsck. Could you walk me through what I should do?




run du -h

first candidate will be /var  - unless of course this on another partition.
Assuming /var is on the /dev/sda2 partition, get in there and start
cleaning it up.
/var/tmp is a good place to start





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