[comp.unix.aux] How do I recover from filesystem full?

rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) (05/18/91)

While running postinstall for the 2.0.1 upgrade my mac ran out
of disk space in its default 80 meg root partition.  The error
was mine for not removing inc.cpio.Z before running postinstall.

Now, the question is, which way is out?  I removed inc.cpio.Z and
tried to log in as root, but there is no mouse on login, which
makes it hard to start commandshell and redo the upgrade.

can I run postinstall from sash?

bob

andy@slcs.slb.com (Andy Hazlewood) (05/22/91)

In article <28344A54.19860@orion.oac.uci.edu>, rprohask@orion.oac.uci.edu (Robert Prohaska) writes:
|> While running postinstall for the 2.0.1 upgrade my mac ran out
|> of disk space in its default 80 meg root partition.  The error
|> was mine for not removing inc.cpio.Z before running postinstall.
|> 
|> Now, the question is, which way is out?  I removed inc.cpio.Z and
|> tried to log in as root, but there is no mouse on login, which
|> makes it hard to start commandshell and redo the upgrade.
|> 
|> can I run postinstall from sash?
|> 
|> bob


I had the same basic problem in a lab at my school.  The upgrade was complicated
by the NFS mounting of /usr by each machine.  At any rate, I had to reboot each
machine before I ran postinstall, and when the login prompt came up, there was
no mouse!  Anyway, the easy way around this is to hit command-s to bring up
the session type and use the arrow keys to pick a console emulator session.