No space left on device? I paritioned 20GB.

[DallasHokie11]

When I go to Computer, I see my "20.2 GB Media" icon, in which about 18GB is free.

When I try to install anything, upgrade anything, or save a file to the Pictures folder, I get errors saying "No space left on device."

How is that when I partitioned all that free space? I have a tri-boot going on: XP/Jaunty/Mint.

Please help!

[DallasHokie11]

Ohh. I used Disk Usage Analyzer, and it says that the total filesystem capacity is 2.3GB! and I have 4.0kB left of space .


This is a screen shot of my partition mess.
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php? ... 1249962628

I think when I installed Mint, it someone gobbled up Ubuntu's memory space?

[intoDesign.ca]

If you partioned the drive as /media/data or /media/xxxxx then you have to goto the terminal and use the following command:

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sudo chmod 777 /media/data

The reason you can not access this is because when the drive is mounted, only root has write access to the drive. The chmod 777 gives everyone read, write, execute access to this drive.

[DallasHokie11]

Hi. I tried that, but it couldn't find the /data part.

What do I put in for /XXXXXX...where do I look?

[intoDesign.ca]

I should have been more clear with /media/xxxxx - I used xxxxx as a placeholder for whatever you called the partition. I don't have access to the screenshot you posted so I am unable to tell you exactly what to fill in the blank with.

If you mounted the partition as /media/My20GBDR you would

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sudo chmod 777 /media/My20GBDR

Likewise, if you mounted it as /media/personal you would

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sudo chmod 777 /media/personal

[richyrich]

I have a feeling that it is your / partition that is out of space!
Type df in a terminal and copy/paste it back here?

[DallasHokie11]

I restarted the system, and now I don't have enough memory or space to log on!

I am thinking about reinstalling Mint now. . But so far for my Acer Aspire One, Mint has been exceptional!