I am unable to boot my system because I get a Gnome Power Management install error message, i think because i have run out of internal disk space, i do have an external drive.

You seem to be right thinking that it is a problem with lack of space.

The fact that the problem arises with gnome power management indicates that the system has boot up correctly and the problem is just with the graphic environment.

When you get to the message error, go to a console (pressing alt-ctrl-F1), log as your user and empty some space:

sudo apt-get clean

As you don't say what is your partition layout lets assume that every thing is in a single partition which have no free space on it and it is not LVM.

Mount your external usb disk as follows (replace sdb1 with the right partition name):

mkdir /mnt/mydisk
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydisk

Move some user files to your external disk, for example:

mv /home/myuser/Documents/* /mnt/mydisk/

Reboot

HTH

my external drive is already attached. I can simply try using mv /home/jack/Documents/*/mnt/"disk name" ?

When I boot with LiveCD I do not have permission to move these through the GUI

If you run:

uname -r

You will see your CURRENT kernel, you can then run:

dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

You can see the INSTALLED kernels, you can then remove unnecessary kernels (NEVER the running kernel) to save ~130Mb per kernel)

sorry for being ignorant, but how do I make the character between -l and grep "dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2"

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El 05/01/11 16:16, Jack Vultaggio escribió:
> When I boot with LiveCD I do not have permission to move these through
> the GUI

That's because the root partition is mounted as read-only; you can
remount it with

mount -o remount /dev/name-of-the-partition-that-have-the-data

however as I've already told you in my previous post you can boot
normally your system (without the live-cd) and press ctrl-alt-f1 to
access a console.

HTH

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Hilario J. Montoliu
hmontoliu <at> ubuntu.com
http://hmontoliu.blogspot.com
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mount -o remount,rw /dev/name-of-the-partition-that-have-the-data

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El 05/01/11 16:26, Hilario J. Montoliu escribió:
> El 05/01/11 16:16, Jack Vultaggio escribió:
>> When I boot with LiveCD I do not have permission to move these through
>> the GUI
>
> That's because the root partition is mounted as read-only; you can
> remount it with
>
> mount -o remount /dev/name-of-the-partition-that-have-the-data
>

sorry I meant:

mount -o remount,rw /dev/name-of-the-partition-that-have-the-data

> however as I've already told you in my previous post you can boot
> normally your system (without the live-cd) and press ctrl-alt-f1 to
> access a console.
>
> HTH
>

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Hilario J. Montoliu
http://hmontoliu.blogspot.com
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Thank you... I can not get to terminal without LiveCD, however I am having problems with your commands:

mkdir /mnt/mydisk
mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/mydisk

What is "mydisk"? and my External drive is already connected but when i try and run the mv command I get an error message... sorry but I'm running between two computers, one with internet access and one that I'm working on.... It says "missing desination file"

i figured out the problem on the commands... needed to use sudo. However, after I tried to move them, I rebooted and still got the same error message regarding gnome power manager. I'm going to check to see if the documents filed was moved right now.

after running df ./, I get /home/jack/.Private but when I run the mount command, i get "can't find in /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab??????

I think i was able to mount and make rw...but when I try to move files, it tells me that the directory "jack" doesn't exist, but when I do a directory of "home", its there?

i tried the move with home/* and received a ton of error messages starting with "cannot open" file name and ending with "input output error"

I'm assuming the rw mounting of source didn't work; I will try again

Still lost

Thanks Hilario J. Montoliu (hjmf), that solved my question.

Hi :)

Now that you have created some space on the older install can you try booting up in "recovery mode" on that partition. Try "clear some space" and "fix broken packages" to see if that fixes the install enough for you to boot into it.

It might be difficult to identify which bunch of lines to choose to boot into and anyway we need to ahve a look at the layout of partitions on your machine to help you identify and remove the right ones without losing data (hopefully!)

So, please get to a command-line and try

sudo fdisk -l

where "-l" is a lower-case "-L". If you happen to have your external drive plugged in then we could see the way partitions are laid out on that too which could be useful. The internal will be sda and the external will probably be sdb.
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Ooops, sorry i meant to post that last comment to
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+question/140291
so i have had to copy it there! Sorry, it is really late here!
Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

Hi Jack :)

I have just noticed that when you moved your documents and files off sda you were told to use the "mv" (=move) command. Unfortunately that has 2 effects i hadn't considered.
1. It 'should' delete the files from their original place
2. it often messes up the permissions of the files and folders.

Rsync is a better command and it even has a nice front-end gui. Installing grsync brings in all of rsync plus the front-end. I guess the reason it wasn't used instead of "move" was because there was not enough room to install it!

Regards from
Tom :)