Hi!
Found a solution: booting in recovery mode (cmd+R at start-up) and then using the terminal (the filesystem is writable in recovery mode). So the information I did not find and which may help others:
single-user mode (cmd+S at start-up) => read-only filesystem
recovery mode (cmd+R at start-up) => writable filesystem
Bye,
Galford
[Original post] :
I think I've been unlucky: while upgrading os x (10.10 -> 10.11, but that does not matter I think), just before rebooting I save a few files and then reboot. Install keeps going well but stops by lack of hard-drive space. There was enough space at the beginning (I could select the drive) so it must be those files I saved before rebooting: they made me go beyond the threshold...
Now the mac boots directly on the installer and I cannot select my drive as it does not have enough space. I ran the terminal from there, hoping to just delete files but the system is mounted in read-only!
I don't manage to unmount it (as the terminal uses it!) and -o remount is not recognized.
I tried to boot in sinlge-user mode, but the root_drive is the installer (read-only again) and I don't manage to mount my hard-drive from there. (By the way, the hard-drive is perfectly sane.)
In short, what I'd like would just to be able to boot a minimal system in writable mode, delete some files and finish the installation! I cannot use the mac in target mode (no firewire/thunderbolt) and my usb key has 4Go only.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Galford
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Found a solution: booting in recovery mode (cmd+R at start-up) and then using the terminal (the filesystem is writable in recovery mode). So the information I did not find and which may help others:
single-user mode (cmd+S at start-up) => read-only filesystem
recovery mode (cmd+R at start-up) => writable filesystem
Bye,
Galford
[Original post] :
I think I've been unlucky: while upgrading os x (10.10 -> 10.11, but that does not matter I think), just before rebooting I save a few files and then reboot. Install keeps going well but stops by lack of hard-drive space. There was enough space at the beginning (I could select the drive) so it must be those files I saved before rebooting: they made me go beyond the threshold...
Now the mac boots directly on the installer and I cannot select my drive as it does not have enough space. I ran the terminal from there, hoping to just delete files but the system is mounted in read-only!
I don't manage to unmount it (as the terminal uses it!) and -o remount is not recognized.
I tried to boot in sinlge-user mode, but the root_drive is the installer (read-only again) and I don't manage to mount my hard-drive from there. (By the way, the hard-drive is perfectly sane.)
In short, what I'd like would just to be able to boot a minimal system in writable mode, delete some files and finish the installation! I cannot use the mac in target mode (no firewire/thunderbolt) and my usb key has 4Go only.
Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
Galford
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