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nicolassilvar

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Registered: 2016-06-15

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[SOLVED] Run out of /home space

I did not adequate space to my /home directory, but I have plenty space in the / partition. Is there a safe way to re-adjust the partitions which does not require a fresh installation.

Last edited by nicolassilvar (2020-05-21 04:39:44)

f33dm3bits

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

If you setup your system with LVM it should be easy. If not you are probably going to have to a do a fresh install,
AFAIK there is no easy way of resizing volumes without using LVM.

ugjka

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Boot Gparted live iso and resize things. Be careful, it can bork your data if the process gets aborted somehow (power loss, kernel oops etc). Backup things if you can. Adjustments to fstab might be necessary afterwars depending on your setup.

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nicolassilvar

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From: Bogota

Registered: 2016-06-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Boot Gparted live iso and resize things. Be careful, it can bork your data if the process gets aborted somehow (power loss, kernel oops etc). Backup things if you can. Adjustments to fstab might be necessary afterwars depending on your setup.

Will try this and report back

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Resizing can be dangerous.  Are you able to copy both partitions elsewhere, then repartition and copy back?

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nicolassilvar

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Well after resizing, it went all well. Until I started to get booting errors:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/search.php?ac … _id=101612

Ended up doing a fresh install

2ManyDogs

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Reinstalling to "fix" a problem is like buying a new car because your old one has a flat tire.

graysky

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Re: [SOLVED] Run out of /home space

Reinstalling to "fix" a problem is like buying a new car because your old one has a flat tire.

But if you're filthy rich you can afford to do it

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