write error (file system full?) on fc 18 [closed]

Question

I'm not able to edit any file on my linux machine. I checked the free space available on my system,

    df -h
    Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
    devtmpfs                  16G     0   16G   0% /dev
    tmpfs                     16G   84K   16G   1% /dev/shm
    tmpfs                     16G   18M   16G   1% /run
    tmpfs                     16G     0   16G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
    /dev/mapper/fedora-root   50G  4.9G   42G  11% /
    tmpfs                     16G   40K   16G   1% /tmp
    /dev/mapper/fedora-home  428G  428G     0 100% /home
    /dev/xvda1               477M   90M  358M  21% /boot

"/dev/mapper/fedora-home" is consuming complete memory, I'm not sure what this file signifies. How can I free the space consumed by this?

Answer 1

That's the partition where your home directory is located; since it's full, you won't be able to create new files anywhere under /home.

Delete some files in your home directory to free up space. If there are other users on the system, ask them to delete files they don't need as well.