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ephan

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[SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

david@davidarch:~$ df -hT
Filesystem     Type      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs         rootfs    7.4G  6.7G  295M  96% /
/dev           devtmpfs  2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /dev
/run           tmpfs     2.0G  252K  2.0G   1% /run
/dev/sda3      ext4      7.4G  6.7G  295M  96% /
shm            tmpfs     2.0G  1.3M  2.0G   1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda4      ext4      291G   12G  265G   5% /home
/dev/sda1      ext2       98M   17M   76M  18% /boot
/dev/sdb1      ext4      3.8G  240M  3.4G   7% /media/Disk
david@davidarch:~$

My rootfs partition is pretty much full, and I can't install some packages like "urbanterror", and I have to keep doing "pacman -Scc" in order to start X (every 3 days or so).

So I was given the suggestion of expanding the / partition, using space from /home. I just prepared a USB drive with GParted Live USB, and I've used Gparted many times before, I know how to use it, but I have a doubt:

By increasing / partition size (/dev/sda3, I will automatically increase rootfs partition size, or is rootfs a special partition? Thank you.

Last edited by ephan (2012-04-05 10:16:27)

magicalChicken

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

If you increase the size of / you will have more space in rootfs, this is talking about the same thing.

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

Sidenote: Just install the games to $HOME instead?

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ephan

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

Sidenote: Just install the games to $HOME instead?

How can I do that using Pacman? Thank you.

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

You could use the -r option with pacman, but I do not know if that is a smart idea in this case. The easiest solution (not the quickest) would be to expand your root partition.

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

You could also change the location of your pacman cache although that will only ever be a short term "solution". A better one would be to increase the size of root.

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ephan

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Re: [SOLVED] Use Gparted live CD to fix Arch Linux partitions

Thank you! I will be doing it, I tried it once, but I had to cancel, it was going to take 9 hours...