[SOLVED] MASSIVE problem with KDE
If you wanted Vista on your machine, you'd basically have to erase everything. That's quite a drastic thing to do.
I presume you've managed to fill the disk just with documents and things you've created and saved in your home directory ?
I'm not sure what package manager Mandriva uses (is it rpm ?) you should probably have a go at removing software packages that you don't need, that will free up some disk space. I don't know how you'd do that from Mandriva's console though, you'll have to google that one.
The only way out of this situation really is to get your documents off your system partition and onto another disk somehow so that the system has room to breathe and operate.
Does your disk have a second partition for data that might have some space on it? From the console this could be found under /mnt or /media if you have.
I presume you've managed to fill the disk just with documents and things you've created and saved in your home directory ?
I'm not sure what package manager Mandriva uses (is it rpm ?) you should probably have a go at removing software packages that you don't need, that will free up some disk space. I don't know how you'd do that from Mandriva's console though, you'll have to google that one.
The only way out of this situation really is to get your documents off your system partition and onto another disk somehow so that the system has room to breathe and operate.
Does your disk have a second partition for data that might have some space on it? From the console this could be found under /mnt or /media if you have.
Is /dev/sda5 your only linux partition?
Also, try this:
which should show you how much space each main directory is taking up.
Also, try this:
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cd /
du -h -s *
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vista is already installed on my machine, im dual-booting it with mandriva. there are several partitions, sda5, sda3 and something else. i dont think ive filled it up with my documents and files, i think it's just filled up with appliactions. it happened straight after trying to install koffice, which failed then the pc froze, so i guess it took up the last bit of space. so i'll try removing some applications and moving some files (can i move whole folders? coz some folders, for example Music has many hundreds of files in and i dont particularly want to move them one by one! also, it doesnt like filenames with spaces, it thinks each word as a single file). also, a friend of mine has told me i can use the installation disc to resize the partitions to avoid this in future and to recover a previous install.
you can move folders as if they are files.. eg
mv Music /mnt/sda3/
if you want to specify individual files with spaces, either quote the whole name
eg
mv "Some file with spaces.mp3" /mnt/sda3
or "escape" just the spaces
mv Some\ file\ with\ spaces.mp3 /mnt/sda3
or use Tab to auto-complete and escape filenames.
there's also a bootable cd
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
which will let you resize partitions without destroying data.
mv Music /mnt/sda3/
if you want to specify individual files with spaces, either quote the whole name
eg
mv "Some file with spaces.mp3" /mnt/sda3
or "escape" just the spaces
mv Some\ file\ with\ spaces.mp3 /mnt/sda3
or use Tab to auto-complete and escape filenames.
there's also a bootable cd
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
which will let you resize partitions without destroying data.
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