My wife was trying to check her email using Thunderbird 2.0 running under OpenSuSE 10.3. Thunderbird told her that her mail could not be written either because the disk was full or she doesn't have write permissions. I decided to try the MS method, restart. The restart went as usual except that GDM refused to load, compaining of insufficient space to write the authorization file. I tried logging in using my troubleshooting acct. Same as the above. Successfully logged in as root. Tried deleting some large rdiff-backup files. I realized that the rdiff-backup files are on an external drive which is no longer connected to this computer. Now I'm really confused. I decided to ask you all or help. On the way out of root, I noticed that the Computer/Status/Hard Drive indicated that the hard drive has 23 GB free. I can provide system logs as long as you can tell me which one. I'm not very good at low-level troubleshooting but I can follow instructions. Thanks for any assistance. Don Henson -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org