problem booting no space left on device

[civoskela]

So I decided to do an update but didn't pay attention to how much space I have left...  The issue happens when I try to log into my account I get this http://imgur.com/a/oifx9

I'm using linux lite 2.6x on VMware. I've went into the recovery menu and ran the clean option, but that didn't solve the issue. In the recovery menu I can't seem to use root... It's asking for give root password for maintenance, which I have no clue what it is. I also tried to use a USB stick to see if I can boot up from the USB and clear some files but... It's not recognizing the type of USB I created. I could still potentially play around with this until I find the right application for making my bootable linux lite USB.

If I can get any help on this it is greatly appreciated! 

If you have any questions just ask.
Thanks

[LL-user]

Hi civoskela,

Welcome to the Linux Lite community!

To create a LiveUSB device Jerry is recently recommending Etcher. I'm generally using UNetbootin which is available in the repositories.

If you get access to your system partition and assuming your system is on one partition, the first thing I would check is the space used by this folder:

Code:

du -hs /var/cache/apt/archives/

Here are all the downloaded packages stored used for updating your system. Cleaning them does not break your system.

Hope that helps for a start.

[firenice03]

Welcome...

Also if using a Windows box, win32diskimager works well for creating bootable USB..

Something else to check; is the VM set to boot from another disk (USB) - bios etc...


A couple ideas to keep in mind since this is a VM, should the USB not end up working or ??
- Do you have a recent snapshot you can roll back to prior to the update, you could run maintenance then update...
- Not sure how the VM's were created or what your configurations are, can you add additional storage to this VM's drive??

[Wirezfree]

Hi,

You did not say what your platform is.?? Windows/Linux..??

But to avoid further issues... Increase the size of your VMWare Virtual Disk
Then open gparted when you are in LL Live and increase the size of your SDx('s) using the new space created when you expanded Virtual Disk
(( SDx maybe sda1 etc...))

Then also follow the other advice to clean things up.
You can also run Lite Tweaks when re-booted into LL to clean more up.

GL.

[merlin]

You choose in options Other Linux 2.6.x, maybe you can fix this with choose Ubuntu in option for your VMware.

Hope this help!

Regards

[civoskela]

Thanks for all your replies! I failed to mention that I did try to increase the size of the VMWare virtual disk by 15gb and didn't fix the issue. I also failed to mention that my current platform is windows 7 home premium edition.

About the bootable USB... I did make it through UNebootin, but for the distribution I chose Ubuntu.. Not sure if that's correct. I did test the USB stick on my physical/actual computer and was able to see something when I would boot from it. When I do go and check the BIOS for my linux lite VM I can't see that exact USB drive -_- . I do however see it in VMWare; I see it in VM -> removable devices. I also used my original image for my linux lite, the 2.6x version. It's possible I didn't create a proper bootable USB, I'd like to make sure I'm selecting the correct distribution.

I'm assuming there really is nothing else to try? My only option is to use a bootable USB to get in and correct the problem?

[Wirezfree]

Hi..

Even though you increased the VMWare Virtual disk size by 15GB
LL will not know about it, or even be using it...

You will need to expand the drive(s), the sda? actually inside LL with gparted once you have a bootable disk
When you open up gparted it will look like...
For example sda1 is say your / at 10GB, and now there will be some "unused" disk space available, because you expanded the VM disk.
You will need to expand the sda in gparted to use that "unused" space

[civoskela]

I understand.. But I can't get in to even do this..

[Wirezfree]

O.K..

I do not know VMWare that well, only played with it a few years ago... Now use VirtualBox..

In most VM type apps you can configure, just like a PC the boot order...
You should be able to select your LL VM, but move USB up the priority,
so that you can get it to boot from a Live LL USB stick...

This is your only option to get in to gparted, and then expand your sdx into the "unused" space.

GL

[civoskela]

I was able to insert the linux lite CD image into VMWare and boot from there. So problem solved! I didn't know I could insert an image and I didn't have a CD drive to use...

Thanks for all the previous responses.