i am using ubuntu 14.04, and I got a message saying "not enough space on disc" (or something like that). The problem is that I;m trying to get into ubuntu and delete some files that I don't need (in order to free some space), but after I write my password in the login screen, nothing happens. Maybe Ubuntu can't open because there is so few space left? So, my question is: How can I access and delete files from ubuntu partition without being inside ubuntu, but from my Windows 8.1 partition (I have a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04).
2 Answers
Windows can not mount linux partitions. You can:
- Create a live CD/USB
- Boot from live CD/USB
- Mount hard disk partition
- Delete the files
- Reboot from hard disk
You can find description on how to create a live USB here.
If you are able to get to the login screen then you should be able to access the TTY command line by pressing Ctrl+Alt++F1 on your keyboard. From here enter your username and password to login to the TTY terminal.
Now you can access your filesystem using ls -al
to see the files and folders in your current path and the cd directoryname
to navigate to a different directory. From here you can issue commands such as rm filename
to delete a file or rm -r directoryname
to recursively delete every file and folder in the specified directory.
Note: The rm
commands can be very dangerous as they will outright delete the file/directories you specify and once they are deleted they cannot be recovered so be very careful which files/directories to select for deletion while using these commands.
After you've finished deleting the files you want to remove press Ctrl+Alt++F7 to exit the TTY and continue to the login screen.