Won’t boot from previously working SSD drive

So now to approach the issue of my bootable usb drive. I did the Ctrl+Alt+F1 logged in that way then did df -h.

it seems like all the space is taken up which would make sense that I can’t log in. Though what do I do about it? I just recently sudo upgraded and updated the system because I thought it would just be routine

 

see if that makes some space.
300MB is not enough to run a system, it needs at least 500 to start, then it will work even with only 200MB free, but will get sluggish.

Okay I will try that thank you. In the meantime though. Why might it be so full? I’ve never had a system get so full like this and it happened when I did a sudo update. Though this is a very barebones system

USB to small, 16GB is the minimum for a working system installed same as on hard drive, 32GB is preferred.
For a Live system, 4GB is fine.
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Having said that, do not upgrade (you can do update), or just do a security upgrade on small drives.
For small drives you can do a LIVE version that can save settings and configs, search for "persistent mode for Live Debian" or Mint or whatever you want to use. This will take the ISO size plus up to 4GB of space for settings/persistence, so can be used on 8GB drives.
Get an USB SSD, normal USB drives are way to slow.

That worked and I got in thank you. Though I have a 32gb usb drive I just bought. So I’ll just wipe the 8gb one I just set up and make the 32gb one the bootable drive for the client. Might as well.

I’ll work on this and getting everything set up for them. Though I will have to come back and figure out why I can’t get into the SSD drive.

Thank you

I have the bootable USB all done and ready. Now to get back to fixing then SSD drive