Problems with hard disk full
Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 1:27 pm
i know this is an old thread, but my wife is currently having this problem as well.
she is running linux mint 12 lxde that i installed on her mini. the drive is so full she is unable to login as her user... interestingly, i can login as root.
It is that issue that helped me find this issue. She came to me saying she couldnt login. I read the forums, found some answers, and checking the contents of df -h I found her drive was 100% full.
Armed with that info, I set out deleting old junk she no longer needed. But I came to realize after deleting several gigs of data that the disk still showed up as completely full. I read here that the items were probably in the trash, but my trash in pcmanfm shows empty
ai should also note that when deleting files, I not only pressed delete on the keyboard, but i also held down the Shift key when deleting her files. Now I see no trace of these files anywhere, but i am also not showing that I have gained any hard drive space.
she is running linux mint 12 lxde that i installed on her mini. the drive is so full she is unable to login as her user... interestingly, i can login as root.
It is that issue that helped me find this issue. She came to me saying she couldnt login. I read the forums, found some answers, and checking the contents of df -h I found her drive was 100% full.
Armed with that info, I set out deleting old junk she no longer needed. But I came to realize after deleting several gigs of data that the disk still showed up as completely full. I read here that the items were probably in the trash, but my trash in pcmanfm shows empty
ai should also note that when deleting files, I not only pressed delete on the keyboard, but i also held down the Shift key when deleting her files. Now I see no trace of these files anywhere, but i am also not showing that I have gained any hard drive space.