I have a Fedora 20 KDE on a 512 mini SSD disk. Yesterday I unfortunately downloaded many rar-files into my /root
partition and ran this command afterwards: unrar x *.rar
. So what happened? My PC got stuck and I could not do anything more so I pushed the power off button as hardly as I can. After I started it again my Fedora stuck at this part
Failed to write pack file
. So my thoughts are that my root partition is full.
My question know how to get this files deleted?
What I tried:
I downloaded a Fedora 20 Live Image and copied into a USB stick. After that I tried to boot from the USB stick to get into the rescue mode. But I don't have a submenu under Troubleshooting
which contains something like rescue mode
. No problem I thought because I saw that someone said you have to run Linux rescue
from the grub. I did that, but I got another error message that it could not find a kernel named Linux. Fine so I googled more and more. I saw a post that the Fedora Live CD does not have a rescue mode. I have to start the Live CD and mount my existing fedora OS. But this did not help either.
So does anybody know what to do now?
/root
isn't usually a partition (though it could be), likely a directory on/
. You need to know which filesystem to mount, then mount it and clean it. SysRescueCD is fairly stable and robust.