Disk full - Will not boot - OS X Mavericks

[rexy101]

Hey,

Similar problem here. My HDD is completely full (accidentally) and now it will not turn on at all, which makes sense as there is no room for anything. When I try to boot it up it just stays on the loading screen.

Is there a way for me to delete some file say the trash so it can boot.

Options that I have been think of:
1. If I can get in to Terminal from Install Utility (if it has one?????), I then can empty the trash.
2. Boot OS X from another HDD plugged in to it and then some how accessing the original HDD and deleting some files.

Can someone confirm weather this is possible or anything I can do if at all. Unfortunately, if is my home computer which my wife is using and I am away so can not ticker and fix it. Or even pull the HDD out and plug it into another computer to delete some files.

Thanks.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Option 2 and the one in your last paragraph should work. You'd be able to access the troublesome drive easily either way.

Option 1 depends on how much is in the trash.

 

[priitv8]

I'd start with booting into single-user mode and empty the trash.
This requires command of command-line, however.
You should be able to do the same from Terminal booted from recovery partition as well.