Full Disk Broken Install

[say592]

I have an HDA that is a simple 2.2ghz (I think) Celeron, with 1gb RAM, and a 20gb system hard drive using a 750gb hard drive for the data. The 750gb is on a seperate controller, as my motherboard did not have SATA ports.

I came home from work and found my HDA down. Hooked a monitor up to it and rebooted. I got an error when I tried to log in, something about the disk being full causing some update to fail. Note, it did boot, but it did not allow me to log in.

What would be the best way to address this? Are there some temporary files I can clear out somehow? I have another 750gb laying around, but I am thinking that I had a hard time trying to get the PC to boot from the SATA card and that is why I used the system disk. I also just like the failsafe aspect of it, so I would prefer to "fix" the 20gb and save the extra 750gb for storage.

Thanks for the help ahead of time!

[moredruid]

lookie here: http://forums.amahi.org/viewtopic.php?f ... Fbin#p6301

you should be able to login with that and fix what needs to be fixed, then reboot and enjoy.
the usual suspects are /var/log/<subdirs or files>
you can find how much space /var is consuming with:

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df -h

if you want to see which subdirs consume the most space:

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du -kh --max-depth=1 /var/log/

if you are in /var/log you can see large files with:

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ls -lh

this is ls with human readable blocks, i.e. 2.0M for a 2MB file instead of the bytes (2097152)

good luck