On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 15:23, Darksyde <m_alexander61@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I have Mint 7, Gloria, on a persistent USB drive and cannot boot it. All goes well, even to the "From freedom came elegance" screen with the status bar showing progress.
> Then it hits a snag and a list of error messages come up, all with "no available space" or "no space remaining", something like that, and an "Error 28". "Properties" of the
> drive show that there is 1 gig (out of 3.7) free, though this, I assume, means little or nothing. Filesystem type shows "msdos"- should that be the case? I never noticed
> before. Though it probably doesn't matter, this is a purchased distro and the drive is a Kingston.
How much RAM do you have? IIRC, most of the live distros load their
filesystems into ramdisks, and if you've added stuff to the original
installation, you could be filling up the ramdisk, thus the out of
space error. And msdos is typical for flash drives... that or vfat...
they should all be generally formatted in fat32 these days.
> I've used this drive many times and I have loaded a bunch of apps into it, but how do I access it to delete some files assuming this is necessary? When I open it, the usual
> files are visible (Casper, etc.) but nothing shows that (in my opinion) could be deleted. I assume that this is another case where the CLI will come in handy, no?
> FWIW, there's nothing on this drive that I can't live without, as I recall, but the solution may come in handy in future when I plan to use external drives more for an extra layer
> of security.
How did you "load a bunch of apps into it"? Was the USB stick
installed with persistent storage? How much? Could you have more
stuff than you have persistent storage? How did you create the stick
to begin with?
Well, maybe some of that will give you a good starting point.
Cheers,
jeff
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