Re: why am i not being able to write CD's in linux

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 02:48:20AM -0800, leosgohard wrote:
> hi there
> <snipped problem already addressed>
> 
> 2) Bob recently answered one of my posts regarding being able to add 
> another ext3 partition
> as /dev/hda7 to increase disk space available for linux.
> i did that ...but despite that second linux partition available 
> ..whatever rpm or other softwares ..i install ..they dont go on 
> /dev/hda7 ...what should i do about it...?
> i am just having 200 mb free on my disk now..!  despite the fact that i 
> have another 4 GB /dev/hda7  ext3 partitioin available ...it remains 
> unused.....what should i do about this whole situation..??

More info, please.  What is the mount point for /dev/hda7?

Where was the software supposed to go?

Where did it actually go?

> 3) what would be the best partitioning scheme ,if i want to do a fresh 
> install on  machine with 8 GB space available for linux..
> i am aware that if you  mount different   dir's on different disk 
> partitioins ..you can handle/avoid the above mentioned problems..(of 
> being left with no disk space at all..!!)pretty easily.
> 
> please help this newbie..!

This isn't the only solution, or even necessarily the best, but it
should work.

50-75MB for /boot
5GB for /
2xRAM for swap
500MB for /usr/local
rest for /home

> 3)  one of my friends..(while practising linux commands....) wrote an 
> /etc/nologin   as root...( Duh..!!!_ ) and locked himself out of his 
> linux box. Is there any way for him to boot into the machine somehow and 
> delete that /etc/nologin file to be able to login again.
> if not..then he is not ..left with anyother option than to install linux 
> again..!!
> 
> please help on that front too..!

I'm curious what he did to accidentally produce that result.  But it's
not important now, except that he should NOT do it again. :-)

If there are no open sessions, I think the only solution is a reboot.
Check that by cycling through the available consoles with Ctrl-Alt-F1,
through Ctrl-Alt-F7.  He may be able to do a proper reboot using
Ctrl-Alt-Del.  Failing that, he may have to hit the <Reset> button and
let fsck clean up the partitions.  In the absence of a <Reset> button,
he'll have to power off for about 10 seconds and the power it up
again.

The reboot will clear the /etc/nologin file.

> regards
> 
> robin

Cheers,
-- 
Bob McClure, Jr.             Bobcat Open Systems, Inc.
robertmcclure earthlink net  http://www.bobcatos.com
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