[ale] on topic: Centos 6 out of /root space, boots but no login.

[smcbrien at gmail.com (Scott McBrien)]

What about booting to single user mode?

If that still won't work, you can put in your install media and boot to rescue mode, your / will be mounted at /mnt/sysimage.

-Scott

> On Sep 10, 2015, at 12:47 PM, <neal at mnopltd.com> <neal at mnopltd.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Well, darn.  Our trusty Centos 6 server ran out of space in /. 
> 
> It's natural and logical reaction was to not notify anybody, and honk.   
> 
> My wife saw a message on her NX window, but we couldn't get a shell to SU. 
> 
> Rebooting proceeds normally, and after about 2 minutes we just get a blank screen. 
> 
> Short of building a Knoppix CD or some other means of booting off of CD, is there a boot sequence that will just give me a root shell so I can clean out the / filesystem?   This is a pretty stock Centos 6 install with mirrored drives. 
> 
> Neal Rhodes
> MNOP Ltd
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