Frugal install on HD no space.

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Frugal install on HD no space.
started by: Caspar_s

Posted by Caspar_s on Jan. 01 2006,21:07

Okay, I have something set up screwy somewhere.

I installed dsl on a 200mb partition, with persistent home on hda4
Which is a 100gb or so partition. (Window ME on the rest which can't use half the 250gb drive :-(

Fine, I'll use linux to back up and store stuff on the other half.
I have filled up 14% (a backup directory under the /home/dsl directory created.)

df -h reports 84gb free. cp and emelfm will NOT let me copy anything else. (well, 280mb of a 370mb file) Is this something to do with the ramdisk? I tried going through /mnt/hda4/home/dsl/backup

I initially didn't have it under home - didn't have the persistent home either. I mounted the partition and made the backup - and got to 14% . I made the persistent home, symlinked the /backup to /home/dsl/backup that didn't work. Accidently wiped it out and started again.

No idea what to even search for.

ANY ideas?

Posted by starcannon on Jan. 01 2006,21:42

I'm a noob so this will be a blind leading blind. So I'll just ask you things that I'd ask myself if i were in your spot...

Did You accidently set your simlink to a full partition?
Is your fstab mtab file pointing to the correct partition...or is hdaX REALLY hdaX? or is hdaY being linked to hdaX?
Do you have rw access to the partition
Did you set limits on size of files or how much spaces userX can have.

Anyway theres some things I'd be looking at if i were stuck with that situation.
Good luck, sorry no answers, but sometimes knowing the questions can help, hope one of those is a question that works.

Rob

Posted by Caspar_s on Jan. 02 2006,01:07

Thank you!!!

I copied them over with root, and it works fine. So user dsl has a size limit.
I couldn't make a root directory under home/dsl without still getting the limit, so made a directory under the root of hda4.
Okay, where do I set that?

Posted by Caspar_s on Jan. 04 2006,23:15

Okay, this is from my mtab

/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/mnt/hda4/home/dsl /home/dsl none rw,bind 0 0

Ummm, so what does that mean?

I don't seem to be able to set the quota.
Anyway, what is the best way to do this archive stuff? Put in on the drive, and let user dsl access it? I'm confused.

Posted by starcannon on Jan. 05 2006,06:29

Quote (Caspar_s @ Jan. 01 2006,20:07)

sounds like a possible permissions problem

try:
chown --help
chmod --help

Also tons of "how to's" for chown and chmod just google each one or google "how to set permissions linux"
I'm thinkin you dont have size limits set, i think you just need to modify some permissions.

GL and keep us updated hope that solves you.

Rob