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I was using bleachbit then the system got stuck It was not working I did a force shutdown Now when I reboot I am not able to reach the login screen I entered the tty and found that the system had no space left. Please help me out, I have a lot of important files in it all in the root partition

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    If there is insufficient space in $HOME (your user directory), a GUI login won't be necessary. The fix is to either expand the partition (recommended minimum is 25GB for /, is that what you have?) or to delete files/programs until you have sufficient space. You've provided limited details for us to help currently. What did you mean by force-shutdown? A SysRq key combination to cleanly reboot or something else?
    – guiverc
    Jul 25, 2020 at 10:56
  • thanks, i pressed the power button for 7 seconds to forcefully shutdown the system Jul 25, 2020 at 10:59
  • can you help me with the commandline to do so Jul 25, 2020 at 11:00
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    i would always cleanly shutdown your system (ie. using keyboard commands to tell system to power off, reboot etc via SysRq commands), however if power went out (or power-button was pressed), I'd not reboot until I'd have fsck (file system checked) your system to ensure any damage done via unclean shutdown was fixed.. I'd recommend you fsck your system from a live system (such as Ubuntu install media, so your hdd/ssd isn't in use and fsck is easy to perform)
    – guiverc
    Jul 25, 2020 at 11:01
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    You can also use a live USB stick to temporarily move your unnecessary files away from the full partition. Jul 25, 2020 at 11:16

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First, boot from a CD, USB, or network in recovery mode or live mode.

Second, delete the large files in ~/.cache/ as suggested in the BleachBit FAQ entry "Q: I closed BleachBit while it was working for a long time, and now my hard drive is full. How do I fix it?". It is often safe to delete the whole ~/.cache/ folder.

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