quixote
July 7th, 2010, 09:00 PM
I have a 2GB USB thumbdrive which Startup Disk Creator turned into a LiveUSB. I reserved 128MB for persistent memory. Then I went and filled it all up by adding the multiverse repository. When it went to reload repos, it filled up all the available space and that was that. :rolleyes:
The trash is empty, and I've deleted files, bypassing trash. But the problem persists. I thought apt stored its info in /var/cache/apt, but that's just a 60K directory or so, so I don't see how it could be the problem. I gather aufs is the persistent memory filesystem, so I tried deleting that on the assumption the system might recreate a new empty one, but no luck. "Sudo rm /aufs" told me it wasn't a directory, and "sudo rm -rf /aufs" didn't return any errors but the drive full problem persists.
Is there some elegant way I can dump all my modifications to the LiveUSB so I have my 128MB back? I know the simplest thing is probably to start over and reinstall, but it would be useful to know if there's some way to recover from this kind of mistake.
The trash is empty, and I've deleted files, bypassing trash. But the problem persists. I thought apt stored its info in /var/cache/apt, but that's just a 60K directory or so, so I don't see how it could be the problem. I gather aufs is the persistent memory filesystem, so I tried deleting that on the assumption the system might recreate a new empty one, but no luck. "Sudo rm /aufs" told me it wasn't a directory, and "sudo rm -rf /aufs" didn't return any errors but the drive full problem persists.
Is there some elegant way I can dump all my modifications to the LiveUSB so I have my 128MB back? I know the simplest thing is probably to start over and reinstall, but it would be useful to know if there's some way to recover from this kind of mistake.