root partition growing

[Tom Bell]

Max Freitag wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i have kubuntu 9.10. My first harddrive (1TB) has a boot-partition and a second 
> partition with dm-crypt and a lvm in it. the lvm has a root, tmp, home, .. 
> partition.
> I get with du and df a difference. I hade the same Problem a view weeks before. 
> On the root was not enougth space left and i can't login on kde. I didn't find 
> the loss space and reinstalled the system. Has anyone an idea where the space 
> on my disk is gone or where i can look for it?
> (kdirstat shows 5GByte used and dolphin shows 69 GByte free of 137 GByte, 50%)
>   
* * * SNIP * * *
I had a similar problem with booting into a partition that ran out of
space.  My problem was that the second partition was not mounting
and I got that fixed later.  Since I could not boot in to Kubuntu, I
tried to
boot into "Safe Mode" and got the CLI without the GUI.   I logged in
to that just fine, then typed "startx" and got the GUI (go figure).  From
there I found the out-of-space problem with my HD and moved some
files around.  Then I could boot into Kubuntu and fix the mounting
problem with second partition.
Why did the GUI come up while I could not boot directly into the GUI?
I have no idea!  Possibly something about the filesystem usage
under the GUI login...????
It saved me from having to reload the system.  Worth keeping in mind
the next you can't log in.

Tom

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