Hello,

The hard drive in one of my home computers died recently and, until I
get a replacement, the family gets to use FreeSBIE 1.1.

That's not a problem, everyone here can use X Windows and XFCE.  The
problems they are experience are these:

1. The root partition fills up.  I've mounted the users home directories
from the NFS server and they're saving documents there.  But "torsmo"
shows 24.7M/28.8M used (which partition is that?)  df -h shows:

/dev/md7                  24M    6.6M     15M    30%    /.root
<above>:/.root            53M     35M     15M    70%    /root

Right now I've got space because I just rebooted.  I've set firefox
cache to virtually nothing so that can't be filling up root.  I can
recursively search /root and sort by date/time and don't see any new,
big files.  It's like something is allocating space on the disk, then
deleting the file, but the file system doesn't see it as released.

Any tips on how to manage disk space better would be greatly
appreciated.

2. How to remotely log in as root (or freesbie) to FreeSBIE.  Somethings
my kids just cannot do at a console.  So I need to ssh in and fix stuff
(like freeing disk space!).  What I've done is copied the contents of
another machine's /etc/ssh into FreeSBIE's /etc/ssh and launched the
sshd.  So far so good.  I've even created a user on FreeSBIE that
matches the other user (djp).  I've copied the contents of
/home/djp/.ssh to FreeSBIE's /root/.ssh.  I've also made djp a member of
group wheel.  So I can ssh into FreeSBIE, but I cannot su to root. I
don't know the password.  I've tried changing root's password at the
console but it doesn't seem to "take".  I've also tried this with user
freesbie, but no joy.  I must be daft or something, what am I doing
wrong?

Many thanks for your help.  I've been using FreeSBIE since 5.0 and it's
great.  

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Regards,
Doug
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