$home Directory Out Of Disk Space - Kde Fails

I am a complete newbie in Linux. I installed SuSE 9.2 few days ago and yesterday evening it stopped starting KDE. The last thing I did was trying to make my Soundblaster AWE card work. So I deleted both on-board sound AC'97 and AWE and tried to install them again. I definitely succeed with AC'97 but I guess failed to do it with AWE. Next evening I could not do anything since KDE failed to start. I guess it should be some simple solution...

If you are out of disk space, the answer is indeed simple, free up disk space.

it's a good solution... I just wonder how I could make it full without doing anything...

Ill written Java programs can loop in the background. Happened to me when watching streaming financial charts, cached data wasn't released but added.
Check the /tmp folder and delete everything.

Originally posted by foxy@Nov 10 2004, 12:26
it's a good solution... I just wonder how I could make it full without doing anything...

How much free space do you have? What is your partitioning/filesystem scheme?

I installed SuSE after WinXP. So the file system was NTFS. I have no idea how much space I've got for Linux. Under Windows I've got 1.5Gb free on this disk. I am quite frustrated because it is much more difficult than I thought....

Take 5GB as the needed space for applications in modern age (Windows or else). Provide your actual data are elsewhere, other partition, shareable partition,....
Curently, 5GB partition for whatever OS is cumfy. But gotta have 5GB available for the OS and apps.

the problem is that I cannot boot it in any way. What I've got is only a logon window and I stuck there. If I enter ligin and password, the screen becomes black and then I am back to this logon window. I cannot get into console mode at all.

ok, I've got 1.9Gb in total and 0 available. Is it possible to free some space?

Well, with 2.5 GB required for a standard 9.2 install, I'd say your partition size just isn't big enough. The system can be run as console based using less, but I'm not sure that's what you are looking for. It probably just barely would run when you installed, and whatever you had was used up by tmp files and config files as you used stuff. To really get a decent Linux experience you'll need a larger partition. You never did give your hard disk size; perhaps we could come up with a partitioning scheme that better suits your hardware if we knew a bit more about your setup.