strange report of 'df -h' "Size 7.7G Used 7.4G Avail 0 Use% 100", cannot start GNOME session

From: peter kostov (peter_at_light-bg.com)
Date: 05/18/05

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    To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list@redhat.com>
    Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 23:13:11 +0300
    
    

    Hello,
    I have a strange problem. The history is:
    i have made a full installation of Fedora Core 3 (custom - everything),
    so there were some packages that I would never use (language packs etc.)
    and I had to remove them, but instead of that I decided to update and
    enabled yum. That was stupid because there was about 200 MB free space
    on the root partition... At the evening there was 0 bytes free space.
    (My home directory is on another partition). I don't know if yum has
    updated anything but downloaded much. My first reaction was to delete
    about 300 MB rpms from /var/spool/up2date. I have done that as root with
    nautilus, but df still reported 0 bytes free space! When I turned the
    computer on the next day it was impossible to log into GNOME. I tried to
    start some graphical program (nautilus, evolution) from the failsafe
    terminal but received the warning that it "could not create the
    dir /tmp/orbit-peter - no space left on device" or "could not open
    display 0:0, xlib - connection rejected form server" ?!! Login as root -
    O.K., but again could not start any GNOME(?) program as normal user. I
    succeeded to log into Xfce and KDE, but not into GNOME. Deleting some
    files doesn't affect the output of df! Uninstalling some rpms resulted
    in:

    df -h
    Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
                          7.7G 6.7G 621M 92% /

    As you see 379 MB are missing?! That is what actually confuses me!
    What is going on and how to fix it?

    Please help!
    Thank you in advance!!!
    Peter

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