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[zandu]

Hi I made an error using photorec in xfce which has resulted in photorec placing files in my boot partition so how can I delete them ? Thanks in advance

[Bashing-om]

zandu; Hello;

I would expect one to be able to remove them with the elevated privileges of "sudo"/ Please show us what the partition contains, for direct instruction.

ls -al /boot/

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[zandu]

Hi Bashing-om , here is a copy of what is in the boot,
mine@mine-System-Product-Name:~$ sudo ls -al /boot/
[sudo] password for mine:
total 74876
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Sep 6 10:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 root root 4096 Sep 6 09:54 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1168937 Dec 9 2014 abi-3.13.0-43-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1169421 Aug 15 08:58 abi-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169815 Dec 9 2014 config-3.13.0-43-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 169833 Aug 15 08:58 config-3.13.0-63-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 4096 Sep 11 09:01 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28161761 Sep 6 09:40 initrd.img-3.13.0-43-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28176695 Sep 6 10:00 initrd.img-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 176500 Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178176 Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 178680 Mar 12 2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root 2699011 Dec 9 2014 System.map-3.13.0-43-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 2701418 Aug 15 08:58 System.map-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5833296 Dec 30 2014 vmlinuz-3.13.0-43-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 5845456 Aug 15 08:58 vmlinuz-3.13.0-63-generic
mine@mine-System-Product-Name:~$

[Bashing-om]

zandu; Hey;

Your boot is good as is ;
For reference my /boot:

sysop@1404mini:~$ ls -al /boot/
total 58952
drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     4096 Sep  3 23:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root     4096 Sep  8 20:39 ..
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1165261 Aug 11 11:15 abi-3.13.0-62-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root  1165204 Aug 14 18:07 abi-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   165763 Aug 11 11:15 config-3.13.0-62-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   165763 Aug 14 18:07 config-3.13.0-63-generic
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 Sep  9 15:47 grub
drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     4096 Jun  9  2014 grub_backup
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 19349389 Aug 18 12:07 initrd.img-3.13.0-62-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 19349082 Sep  3 14:36 initrd.img-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   176500 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   178176 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   178680 Mar 12  2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw-------  1 root root  3392306 Aug 11 11:15 System.map-3.13.0-62-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  3392068 Aug 14 18:07 System.map-3.13.0-63-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  5820896 Aug 11 11:15 vmlinuz-3.13.0-62-generic
-rw-------  1 root root  5821152 Aug 14 18:07 vmlinuz-3.13.0-63-generic
sysop@1404mini:~$

The only small thing I see amiss in your /boot is that your backup kernel is the -43 version rather than the -62 . No real biggy.

As the copies are not in the /boot partition. maybe we can locate them - ?

cd /
sudo du -sx * | sort -n
cd

where 'du' is disk usage and reports on where space is being used. and sorted by size.

we see what is

[XBNCPRk]

... Perhaps its just me, but I dont see anything there that shouldnt be.

[zandu]

ok perhaps I have got it wrong then .. This is what I get when Itry to run synaptic package manager
E: Write error - write (28: No space left on device)
E: Can't mmap an empty file
E: Failed to truncate file - ftruncate (9: Bad file descriptor)
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
E: _cache->open() failed, please report.

Gparted shows that shows that /

[JKyleOKC]

Use the command bashing-om gave you in Post #4 above; it will tell you where in the file system the offending files are located.

The entire file system, if installed in the usual default configuration, will be in the "/" tree; that's not just the "/boot" node. The photorec files are most likely in your home directory, or some subdirectory thereof, but the "disk usage" command will give you more details.

[zandu]

Hi thanks for your help I partitioned the installation giving the / 20gib . /home 95gib and swap 2gib

[Bashing-om]

zandu; Hey !

We are here to help. However, if you do not follow our thought process to isolate this fault, and you do not know what to do, you are spinning your wheels to no effect .
If you want my help, please show me the condition that the condition is in.

cd /
sudo du -sx * | sort -n
cd

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168

We find where those space constraints are, and then fix the package manager.

help us to help you

[zandu]

zandu; Hey !

We are here to help. However, if you do not follow our thought process to isolate this fault, and you do not know what to do, you are spinning your wheels to no effect .
If you want my help, please show me the condition that the condition is in.

cd /
sudo du -sx * | sort -n
cd

code tag tutorial:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...8#post12776168

We find where those space constraints are, and then fix the package manager.

help us to help you

[sudo] password for mine:
du: cannot access ‘proc/2553/task/2553/fd/3’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/2553/task/2553/fdinfo/3’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/2553/fd/3’: No such file or directory
du: cannot access ‘proc/2553/fdinfo/3’: No such file or directory
0 initrd.img
0 initrd.img.old
0 proc
0 sys
0 vmlinuz
0 vmlinuz.old
4 cdrom
4 dev
4 mnt
4 srv
8 tmp
16 lost+found
172 root
1284 run
9768 bin
16164 sbin
16908 etc
82060 boot
431320 lib
490784 var
527468 opt
1196212 home
3454632 usr
13513212 media
mine@mine-System-Product-Name:/$