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kiltlad83

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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full root partition<SOLVED>

I installed Arch a while ago on my toshiba tablet with a 4gb partition for / and 17gb for /home.  Now my / is full.  I have about 9.5gb unformated directly after / so I should be able to format and move some directories over but which ones should i move is the question....should i just format the whole space after / as one partition and mount  /usr there, or maybe /etc?

Last edited by kiltlad83 (2009-01-04 17:33:03)

xdeusx

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Registered: 2007-10-15

Posts: 168

Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

You can expand your current root partition to use the unformated disk space also.

Gparted from a live cd environment is able to do that.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

kiltlad83

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

I know how to use gparted from a live disk to accomplish that.  however, the problem I have is that the toshiba m200 does not have an optical dirve, only one that connects via usb.  I left that at school, i am home for break.  So whatever i do has to be done from within arch, unless i format some space at the end of my drive, chroot install another instance of arch then boot into that one and partition from there, just thought there might be an eaiser way to get it done.

archlinuxsagi

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Registered: 2008-09-12

Posts: 259

Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

How about a live usb?

kiltlad83

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

I am pretty sure that isnt supported by the bios.

kiltlad83

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Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

any one have any other ideas?  I tried setting up my mac as a pxe boot server but that totally failed

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

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Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

unless i format some space at the end of my drive, chroot install another instance of arch then boot into that one and partition from there, just thought there might be an eaiser way to get it done.

I don't see how this would work. You could not extent your arch / into this space if you were booted off it.

Do you have a floppy drive? If so, you could boot a floppy disk that lets you boot usb.

How did you install arch in the first place?

Maybe you could move /var and or /boot. There are some folders that shouldn't be moved, /etc might be one of them. Trying to find something to explain this

Last edited by Raccoon1400 (2009-01-03 23:17:55)

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rine

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-03-04

Posts: 217

Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

I don't even think you can expand your / if it comes before your /home partition on the hard drive (which probably is the case here). At least not with gparted. But maybe gparted can save the changes you make in arch and do them on reboot? If nothing helps you could always copy all your stuff to another PC and partition from scratch. 20GB twice (if /home is even full) shouldn't take that long.

SkonesMickLoud

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From: The D of C

Registered: 2008-09-20

Posts: 178

Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

If I remember correctly, you can use UNetbootin (http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/) to boot a LiveCD iso.

kiltlad83

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Registered: 2007-11-03

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Re: full root partition<SOLVED>

Solved, what I did was format the free space after / into two 5 gb partitions, go into init 1 and moved /usr to one and /var to the other, worked fine from the running system as far as I can tell.