Re: Hard drive full error?

From: Kevin Nathan (knathan_at_project54.com)
Date: 01/30/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 20:30:17 -0700

On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 15:09:21 -0800
Synchrodude <me@here.com> wrote:

> Here's a new one, I ran YOU to get updates and it is saying that my
> windows D drive is full.

By "D" drive, do you mean something like: /windows/d?

> I tried to unmount it and it wouldn't let
> me unmount saying drive is busy.

Do you have all programs that could possibly be accessing it, shut
down? Do you have any Konqueror filemanagers open? If you still can't
unmount it after closing all programs, try dropping to runlevel 3 and
trying again. If that doesn't work, drop to runlevel 1 and try again.
If that *still* doesn't work, examine the list of processes ('ps -A'
gives a nice clean list) to see if anything looks out of place. At
runlevel 1, there aren't too many processes.

> This is a fat 32 drive that is
> partitioned to about 20 gigs, and I only have about 2.3 gigs of
> stuff on it right now.

Do you still have Windows on this box? Might want to boot into it and
clean the disk (scandisk, defrag or tools like Norton Utilities) and
get rid of anything unnecessary.

> Any idea's why it would report it as this?
> Also under YOU it shows the D drive as a 64 TB drive instead of 20
> gigs?

I've seen this before and, for the life of me, cannot remember what it
was! :-( I'd first do the above clean up, then backup anything
important on it; then boot into runlevel 3 and see how it looks. It's
been so long since I've run a FAT12/16/32 partition under Linux, about
four years now, and my memory isn't much good for more than four days!
:-) So I can't remember if there is a Linux utility that can check FAT
partitions . . .

> Do you think I can safely ignore this error or what route
> should I take with this one?
>

I wouldn't ignore it, I'd try to find out what's going on first.
Unfortunately, I'm not sure where to go from here. Maybe something on
google will point you in the right direction. 

-- 
Kevin Nathan (Montana, USA)
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