On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 17:33 -0400, Geoffrey Cowling wrote: > I've just built a new machine for myself, and have put Ubuntu on it > (I've usually used Debian), and there seem to be quite a few Ubuntu > experts around here. > > I have a 400G disk, and I partitioned /sdb2 as / and gave it 1G. This > was working well until I foolishly mounted a partition from another > disk on a subdirectory of it --perhaps 4G. This gave some error > messages, and now df says the partition is full and some things I try > to do with apt-get give error messages, (incl. "is your disk full") > I have /boot, /usr /usr/local/ swap /tmp and /home partitions.
That's very odd. You say you used 'mount' to add the new partition into the tree of directories. That shouldn't have used any disk on /. Are you sure you didn't attempt 'cp' the contents of the new partition into /? The output of 'df' will show all mounted directories -- does 'df' show your 4G partition at all? Personally, I don't bother with partitions on personal-use computers, they always seem to cause more trouble than they solve for computers used in that role. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
