On Friday 17 June 2005 17:41, Ken Schneider wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 17:29 -0400, B. Stia wrote:
On Friday 17 June 2005 08:32, Ken Schneider wrote:
Can you also show the results of df?
Ken,
Following is output of df:
EasyStreet:/ # df -ah /* Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hdb1 2.0G 1.9G 30M 99% / /dev/hdb1 2.0G 1.9G 30M 99% / ...............<snip restof output>..........
Wow, 15 entries for /. There should only be one. Something is radically wrong here. Try booting to the rescue DVD/CD and running fsck on /dev/hdb1 and see if anything shows up there.
Ken, Already did that twice in the rescue mode repair system but will try again.
It's almost as though there is some corruption going on with the hard drive or a flaky power supply causing intermittent problems. Try removing the /etc/mtab file while in rescue mode, if it exists.
Ummm...OK but does that file regenerate itself? Power supply is only a few months old and is way oversize for the systm. (450W)
You will need to mount /dev/hdb1 to /some_mount_point while booted in rescue mode to look for it. Something like: mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt rm /mnt/etc/mtab (there will be an error if it does not exist and it shouldn't if you are not booted to the hard drive) umount /mnt
And then reboot to the hard drive I assume ?
Also look in /lost+found and see if anything is there as it would indicate file system problems as well and show faulty disk usage.
Nothing in lost & found, nor trash. Carlos, Checked both fstab & mtab. Both appear to be normal. No multiple entries. Remember now, I did a kernel upgrade a few days ago. The / directory may have been running at 98% and functioning (as it is now) until I trashed an old kdar backup as root. That put me "over the top" 100%. Now, when I cleaned out the trash I was able to log in again with X. That was what prompted my original message about the trash. I did see the / directory drop back to 16% though at that time. Since then, thinking I was OK, I did my kdar backups ( as root,but to another hard drive) Then I saw again that the / partition was almost full again. Other ideas re: kernel upgrade / kdar ? And, I still am the only user who cannot log-in to the KDM screen. Have to drop back to a console and startx. Bob S.