kubunu keeps telling me i dont have enough space left to save anything even though i know for a fact i have atleast one gig left. I tried ubuntu and it did the same thing.
does anyone know a fix to this?
does anyone know a fix to this?
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Re: not enough space left
Run "df -h" in a terminal. What does it say?
I assume that you use ext3 as filesystem. If not, the below might not apply..
It may be that you have about 1gb left on the drive, that you cannot use as a regular user.
This is because the root account has a certain amount of harddrive space reserved that is not accessible to other users. It is a security/stability measure to make sure the system is able to save to disk even if it is full, as not to harm the installation.
(Sorry for my bad explanation)
From the mke2fs man-page:
There is a utility "tune2fs" to change the amount of reserved space, you can read more about it by typing "man tune2fs" in a terminal.-m reserved-blocks-percentage
Specify the percentage of the filesystem blocks reserved for the
super-user. This avoids fragmentation, and allows root-owned
daemons, such as syslogd(8), to continue to function correctly
after non-privileged processes are prevented from writing to the
filesystem. The default percentage is 5%.
Be careful though when using tune2fs. If you do something wrong you may lose your files!! But you probably know this =)
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