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Hello everybody! I'm new in linux, and have a problem with hard drive. The system says that there is no sapce on it (of 160 gigs; I've just installed system). Logigng in as root can't change anything. Can someone help?
Last edited by AlexanderPankiv (2010-08-26 10:40:56)
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What does "df -h" show?
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I'll just remind you, AlexanderPankiv, that Arch is not considered a newbie-friendly distro.
Please post the output of 'fdisk -l'.
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clearly shows wrong selection for the root partition. you might have created a boot partition with smaller size and selected that one as root. As others set post your fdisk -l to reveal the actuals.
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As everyone else said, the hard drive is probably partitioned incorrectly.
Did you take a look at the Official Install Guide? Since Arch is not a newbie-friendly distro, it's expected that you did some searching before asking on the forums.
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I'm not completely newbie! I've used ubuntu for a year
[root@arch ~]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.3G 7.2G 0 100% /
udev 10M 156K 9.9M 2% /dev
shm 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4 140G 193M 132G 1% /home
/dev/sda1 99M 15M 80M 16% /boot
[root@arch ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c1696
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 13 104391 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 14 46 265072+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 47 1003 7687102+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 1004 19457 148231755 83 Linux
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.3G 7.2G 0 100% /
That clearly says you've run out of space.
You have a huge and empty /home partition - move some space and resize your /. Use http://redobackup.org/ or some other distro that has Gparted or similar tool.
Last edited by karol (2010-08-25 19:20:19)
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I am thinking during the install you didn't mount the home on the correct partition and therefore the installer created home under the root partition itself, thereby using up almost all the space.
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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I am thinking during the install you didn't mount the home on the correct partition and therefore the installer created home under the root partition itself, thereby using up almost all the space.
But the installer doesn't fill /home so it would be empty, right?
Maybe OP installed a lot of software.
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True
There's no such thing as a stupid question, but there sure are a lot of inquisitive idiots !
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No, everything's okay now.
The problem is that non-root user doesn't have pemission to save files, etc. And if I download smth. using root it uses "root" folder which is on the small partition.
Sorry to say but I still have problems with my "non-root" user. For example: I've already installed flashplayer, but I can use it only as root. Why? Can someone help?
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No, everything's okay now.
The problem is that non-root user doesn't have pemission to save files, etc. And if I download smth. using root it uses "root" folder which is on the small partition.
Sorry to say but I still have problems with my "non-root" user. For example: I've already installed flashplayer, but I can use it only as root. Why? Can someone help?
It's a problem with permissions
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fla … ot_working
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Do you mean the root partition is no longer full? It was 100%. How are you installing software? Are you using pacman?
edit: take a look at the permissions on your users homedir and post them here.
Last edited by loafer (2010-08-25 20:10:52)
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The problem is that non-root user doesn't have pemission to save files,
This doesn't sound good.
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Great! It works!
One more question - what to do to change language? I've already changed it in "rc.conf" but it didn't work. Language - Ukrainian.
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rc.conf language setting does not affect what happens inside X.
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg#InputClasses
Also, tell us what you did to solve the other problems and mark the thread as solved afterwards.
Last edited by loafer (2010-08-25 20:30:29)
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The solving was very simple. Creating additional user I made a big mistake: I didn't assign it to any group (I should have read patiently, I didn't). I used terminal to assign it to most groups from http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Groups
Using root user when downloading something I used ./home folder as destination folder (where most of my hard drive mounted). That's all
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Please edit your first post and add [solved] to the title or Santa won't bring you any presents this year.
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