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BarefootSoul83

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[SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

I have a 7gig partition for my /root ...unfortunately this seems too small...  Are there any safe / easy ways to beef that partition up..(say to 15gig) without going through the whole install processa gain.....I have plenty of free space on my main partition....hopefully I can borrow some room from that...

Last edited by BarefootSoul83 (2009-10-15 17:18:49)

lilsirecho

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

Perhaps you should use gparted to expand your root partition.

The data in gparted permits perusal of all partitions on your drive and allows changes to be made.
You may have to shuffle swap as well to make room for expanded root.

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vacant

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

Might not be necessary. My Arch with kde is just under 7GB and has been for several years. That's including about 1.2GB of /var/cache/pacman/pkg/* pkg files - you could either "pacman -Scc" to delete the entire cache" on a regular basis or keep the packages but move them to another partition and simply amend "CacheDir" in /etc/pacman.conf.

Last edited by vacant (2009-10-13 15:31:04)

BarefootSoul83

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

Gparted Live worked GREAT!!!  (it did take a long while though...but...I would rather it take long than loose data!)

Samuel from beteigeuze

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

Ehm, do you mean your root-Partition with the mount-point "/" or the home-directory of the user "root" with the mount-point "/root"? If it's the second one I'd reccommend to you not to save this much data in your root-account. If it's the first one, Gparted is your choice. Don't forget to backup before and take your time, resizing partitions can be very slow.

Edit: Oh I see that your problem is solved now, so my post is obsolete now...

Last edited by Samuel from beteigeuze (2009-10-15 18:30:10)

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BarefootSoul83

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Re: [SOLVED] Partition (/root too small)

Thanks anyway...it carified to me exactly what I did! =-) (I'm a newbie...I need all the help I can get!)