Re: too much data on disk~ 'x' won't start

Michael Havens said:
>
> There is so much data on my disk that when I sstarted Linux this morning
> 'x' wouldn't start.

How do you know that too much data on your disk was the cause of the
startx failure? What was the specific error?

> The precursor to this was last night I did 'rm
> /mnt/hda5/*' (my music drive). I thought that maybe it was that the
> trash bin was needed to be emptied, but I found that to be not full
> except for one small file (I had emptied it last night).

The trash bin is a feature provided by your desktop software, KDE or GNOME
or whatever. The rm command will NOT put anything in a trash bin unless
your version of the rm command has been customized to do so. Assuming
your rm command is not changed from standard, which is probably the case,
no file deleted by it will EVER be in a trash bin.

> So I thought
> maybe it was somewhere else on the drive and did 'find / S*' (most of my
> music starts with an S as in Styx and Stevie Nicks and Swing) but after
> that long search that proved to be fruitless. So where could all that
> extra data be that are filling my disk be? ......
> Wait a second. I 'su root' so that means that it is in roots trash bin.
> I think that is right. Let me know if I am not. :-)Mike(-:

root, or any other user, does not have a trash bin unless the user is in a
GUI desktop and the desktop provides a trash bin function and you used the
GUI method for deleting that uses the trash bin.

If you have the exact error that indicated the disk was too full, it may
provide a hint as to where the problem is. The df command is also useful
to show the amoung of overall space left in your partitions.

Alan



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