Then press e to go into edit mode
The words root (hd0,0) will appear. ignore them.
Use the down arrow to choose the line that start with "kernel"
Then press e
At the next screen at the end of the line the cursor is at press the space bar to add a space and
Then type the word 'single' - the syntax is important to have a space followed by the word 'single' then press enter to apply
Then type b to reboot
Once the boot loader stops at a line that says
sh-3.00#
You are now in single user i.e. the base Linux mode
Type
df -h
and you will see two lines
filesystem size used avail use% mounted on
/dev/sda3 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx /
/dev/sda1 xxxx xxxx xxxx xxx /boot
The sizes and use are dependant on what is stored but if use is 0% on line/dev/sda3 you have filled
up your hard drive
to try and free up space you can go to the tmp directory
i.e. type
cd /var/tmp
there type
ls -al
See what large files you can delete to make some room.
So once you have decided what files to delete type
rm -rf largefile
Which will remove the file called 'largefile'
If you have a sequence of clips called for example 'myframes' in the tmp directory use
rm -rf myframes*
To remove that sequence of frames
Then type reboot
and the system should come back up if you have made enough free space |
