bikeman1
September 28th, 2009, 08:31 PM
Hi -- I am not able to update because my root partition is listed as being full -- and seems to be. I have a single root partion, plus a home partition. Here is what is up.
myname@server:~/Desktop$ df -Th | sort
/dev/sda1 ext3 56G 55G 0 100% /
/dev/sda6 ext3 35G 1.7G 32G 6% /home
/dev/sdb1 ext2 1.1T 944G 101G 91% /mnt/Wilbur
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
lrm tmpfs 438M 2.4M 436M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
overflow tmpfs 1.0M 20K 1004K 2% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs tmpfs 438M 480K 438M 1% /dev/shm
udev tmpfs 438M 160K 438M 1% /dev
varlock tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /var/lock
varrun tmpfs 438M 716K 437M 1% /var/run
I think (but am nit sure) that the overload is a backup file (from SimpleBackup) that went directly onto the hard drive rather than the raid array loaded in /mnt, oxccurring when /dev/sdb1 failed to mount. But I can't find the offending file, and can't access the root trash even with gksudo nautilus. I am sort of handcuffed. My own trash (on the desktop) seems empty
Can anyone suggest a way for me to find the lurking trash and delete it ?? whenever I try to view the trash in nautilus, I encounter an error
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported.
and the trash read operation just hangs.
alternately, should I clean up some other filespace and then update?
I did chown permissions of the root trash and try deleting it. No effect. Acts like a permission issue
myname@server:~/Desktop$ df -Th | sort
/dev/sda1 ext3 56G 55G 0 100% /
/dev/sda6 ext3 35G 1.7G 32G 6% /home
/dev/sdb1 ext2 1.1T 944G 101G 91% /mnt/Wilbur
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
lrm tmpfs 438M 2.4M 436M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
overflow tmpfs 1.0M 20K 1004K 2% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /lib/init/rw
tmpfs tmpfs 438M 480K 438M 1% /dev/shm
udev tmpfs 438M 160K 438M 1% /dev
varlock tmpfs 438M 0 438M 0% /var/lock
varrun tmpfs 438M 716K 437M 1% /var/run
I think (but am nit sure) that the overload is a backup file (from SimpleBackup) that went directly onto the hard drive rather than the raid array loaded in /mnt, oxccurring when /dev/sdb1 failed to mount. But I can't find the offending file, and can't access the root trash even with gksudo nautilus. I am sort of handcuffed. My own trash (on the desktop) seems empty
Can anyone suggest a way for me to find the lurking trash and delete it ?? whenever I try to view the trash in nautilus, I encounter an error
Sorry, could not display all the contents of "trash": Operation not supported.
and the trash read operation just hangs.
alternately, should I clean up some other filespace and then update?
I did chown permissions of the root trash and try deleting it. No effect. Acts like a permission issue