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[SeattleXO]

I opened up the Record activity today, and got a message that reads "Your disk is full" I can't use any of the functions in Record; picture, video, audio recording.

In terminal, a 'df' command shows that I've got 184 megs available, and I'd think that would be enough to be able to run Record and capture a file.

Any thoughts on what the trouble might be.  A search on the "your disk is full" message doesn't come with anything.  Am I the first?

Chris Altwegg
www.seaxo.org

[LesleyT]

I'm the second!

I deleted everything out of the journal.

Reboot.

No luck. 

Right now my solution to everything has been to reflash, but as soon as I get more than a few hours worth of work into everything, that won't be quite so fun. 

[olpc_franco]

Have you run the command df -k to see what mtd0 is holding?  Post the results.

[LesleyT]

Ummmm...I've used an embarassing mount.  98% 
But I've deleted everything I can to try  to fix it.  How do I get that memory back without flashing?

[LesleyT]

I imagine most of mine is temp browse files from failed or half installs with spotty internet connection. 

I wanna clean house.

[olpc_franco]

It's not clear what you did after finding out df -k had you at 98%.  You said you deleted stuff.  I hope from the right place.  What does df -k say after the delete?

[LesleyT]

This was after the deleting.

I deleted in journal -- pretty much anything I'd ever done on the system. All of my files I'd created and most of the activities I've downloaded. 

I was trying to create a game in memorize with photos so that probably took up a lot of space.  I deleted it in journal.

I had all the G Compris stuff installed at one point (I'm using mine for kids... that's my disclaimer).  I deleted in journal.

I am going to reflash (AGAIN!) but is there a memory manager activity or something to help me see what's going on in there?  I'm sure this will happen again because I'm trying everything right now. 

[Tortuga]

LesleyT,

 Might try saving your work on a USB drive rather than the main drive.

Perhaps some of this information will be of help?

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Current_events
10. Software potpourri: Tomeu Vizoso proposed fixes for a number of bugs that have highest priority: previews are not deleted when their matching datastore objects are removed (Ticket #5707); deleting a large file from a USB stick copies it into NAND (often filling NAND) (Ticket #5719); Sugar shell consuming vast amounts of memory (Ticket #5532); “resuming” a large file from USB copies it into NAND (filling NAND) (Ticket #5744); and objects accumulate on the clipboard, impacting system performance (Ticket #5760).

[olpc_franco]

Lesley,

I jammed up my space with something else, but the result was the same as yours.  I don't think you had to delete the journal.

I was advised to look for the biggest file.  I did that, cleared it, and my main filesystem was back to 46%.

Look at post #6 here:

http://olpcnews.com/forum/index.php?topic=1301.0

and look also at Ben's post #5.

[LesleyT]

I tried this :

su  [become root]
cd /  [make sure you are in the root directory
du [look for the largest file]
cd /path_to_largest_directory
du [again to make sure you are in the right place]
more <monster_filename> [without the brackets, of course.  This allows you to take a look at the first part of the file.  It was obviouse for me that it was the file I wanted, so I deleted it with...
rm <filename>


but the du command made the pages scroll and scroll 

how do I insert a page by page break?

man, it's been a long time since I did any command line stuff.  Not since the VAX system at my college. 

uhhh forgot I had a scroll bar

[olpc_franco]

du | more

[LesleyT]

thanks

even with the page scroll, it still went too far to scroll back to

More questions:
1) how do I save to a USB?  I will work on that


2) I saw the software notes in the wiki and that is really what is happening here.  I'm in widely experimental mode.  I want to see what everything does!  But it's all staying on the xo... not good.  I will end up flashing it -- again!! -- because of the sheer amount of mess I've created on this poor thing.  But I'm sure this will continue to happen to me until I understand more of how the file system works.

I'll play around with things.



Thanks!

[olpc_franco]

du -h | more might make it clearer.  The -h switch puts it in K(ilobytes) or M(egabytes).  Look for the largest M file.

[olpc_franco]

Maybe flashing might save you a lot of time.

I have installed all of my new programs on a usb drive and I run them from there.  This way I still have all that install work.  Also, since the SD drive is kind of hidden and takes a twist of the screen and lifting the XO to take it out, I put all my mp3 music there so that I can just leave it. 

[olpc_franco]

I also suggest that if you flash it you use the latest  build, which I think is still 653.  I also keep those two files needed for flashing on the pen drive with my programs (opera, skype, mplayer, so far).  I only have a 1GB drive and when I have an 8 that will hold a lot of stuff.