Help with minix

surubi_abada · March 10, 2010, 9:28am

hey guys

i hope there is someone familiar with minix that can help me. Well, the problem i am sitting with is that a ran a program with an infinite loop in it, now i think i ran out of memory in the root because a keep on getting the message " no space on the root device 3/128 ", whenever i try to logon minix. how do i solve this problem ? I have a very important program inside the root, but can not login as the root. can someone help ??

regards
surubi

incredible · March 10, 2010, 9:45am

Boot from cdrom, housekeep your root filesystem. remove shadow passwd for root, just in case.

surubi_abada · March 10, 2010, 9:50am

how do you boot from cdrom ? i am using vMware player

fpmurphy · March 10, 2010, 9:55am

I am not familar with minix on VMware but the general approach is to boot to single user mode, fsck the other filesystems, mount them and do your cleanup.