On Sunday 28 November 2004 3:26 pm, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > On Sunday 28 November 2004 20:21, Guido Pinkernell wrote: > > I can't recall what exact step could be the cause of this, so > > bugtracking won't be possible, I'm afraid. But I will let ou know > > about this anyway. Maybe someone is interested: > > I think I have found a reason for all this. YaST2 says my main > partition (8GBytes) is running out of space (99%), about 15MB left. I > can't remember loading more than 3GBytes onto the harddisk recently, > however Linux has crashed several times in recent hours, so there > seems to be loads of unused data. > > I remember especially that when trying to make a system backup onto a > external USB disk the backup process halted while in the middle of > writing onto the disk. Maybe due to a lost USB connection. So the > mysterious gigabytes might very well be leftovers from the backup > files. > > From all this your must surely gather that I am new to Linux. Maybe > you could help me with this: How do I find out about this data, so > that I am able to delete the lot, and delete the right lot? > > Thanks! > > Guido Hi, The better place for you to ask this is the SUSE-e list. You can find it here: http://lists.suse.com SUSE 9.2 has a 'Repair System" option from the install CD or DVD that really impressed me. I have had and I have seen posts regarding system hangs using USB ext HDs. PeterB we'll look for you on the SUSE-e list ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.