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yozgoesdigital
October 14th, 2008, 07:42 PM
Hallo all,
Just got kubuntu (dual boot with xp) installed on notebook Acer aspire 1350. While opening a big *.img file of 4.4.gig I got warnings of a full harddisk.
After emptying the thrash I restarted the system I the hope to stop the program opening the img.
Now when I want to log in I get a black screen for a second and come back to the login screen.

On internet I found other people had the same login problem after having a problem with log files accumulating so there is not enough space on the system or /home disk.
Could it be the image file is somewhere stored in a temporary folder? (and if: how could I remove it?)
I am able to get into the recovery mode and can even start up x

I hope I gave enough information and hope to hear something

yozgoesdigital
October 16th, 2008, 08:37 PM
I have got almost 1500 mb of swap space on a system with 512 ram. As far as I understood this will be more than enough for a system like this (correct me if I am wrong)
Does it make sense to change the size of the swap partition in this case?

Isn't a full swap partition causing a directly frozen system also? Since I was still able to run things.

russo.mic
October 17th, 2008, 05:43 PM
At most, you need double your ram in swap. I personally believe you don't need more than equal your ram.