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Aleksss

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Registered: 2022-12-06

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How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

So basically, I ran into this problem, where I installed Arch trough archinstall and it for some reason gave me only 20 GB of storage on my 120 GB Hard Drive, and I want to know if there is any way to expand that directory, without just completely reintalling Arch.

Edit: I also already tried resizing it trough the "disks" app, but it's stuck at 20 GB

Last edited by Aleksss (2022-12-06 22:22:35)

Slithery

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

Which 'directory'?
Are you talking about / or /home?
Your question doesn't make any sense.

Moving to 'Arch Linux Guided Installer'.

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d.ALT

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

MAKE BACKUP FIRST!!

Use GParted Live

MAKE BACKUP FIRST!!

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Aleksss

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

So, GParted is shpwing me that my / directory is 20 GB (19.50 to be exact. but i dont really think it matters) and my /home directory has 99 GB but whenever I install or update something it just fills up my / firectory and i somehow cant use that 99 GB in my /home. Also, resizing with GParted also doesn't work, it's just kinda capped at 20 GB

d.ALT

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

Also, resizing with GParted also doesn't work, it's just kinda capped at 20 GB

Firstly reduce the size of /home Partition to free up some space, the reclaim that space into / (Root Partition).

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Aleksss

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

It says "Minimum size: 101624 MiB" and i can't resize it, or change the minimum size for some reason

d.ALT

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

What filesystem did you chose when formatting the partition(s)?

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Aleksss

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

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Trilby

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

... whenever I install or update something it just fills up my / firectory and i somehow cant use that 99 GB in my /home

Yes, because packages are installed systemwide.  A package manager should never touch anything in /home.

Note that 20GB is sufficient for a majority of regular desktop users (which is likely why it might be a default in archinstall).  You may want to look into what's taking up all that space.  If you recently installed and that's filling up, that's most likely indicative of a problem you'll want to solve rather than just buy more time by giving it more space to fill.

There are some use cases that would / should need more than 20GB, but these would be due to specific huge packages (e.g., tensorflow and 0ad are some of the bigger beasts that come to mind).  If you are not aware of any particularly huge optional software that you have installed, then there's like a problem to be found / fixed.

For one data point, while I definitely run a pretty slim system, all of my arch machines only use around 3GB of the root partition.

Last edited by Trilby (2022-12-08 16:40:27)

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V1del

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Re: How do I expand my Arch Linux directory, without reinstalling Arch

You need to resize the partitions outside of the running system so you need to start a gparted live disk from USB or so. You cannot do resize operations while the drives/partitions are mounted.