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gaming

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[RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

Hello my prealocated root space was 20Gb recently, I ran out of space in root is there a way for me to allocate some space from home partition

Last edited by gaming (2024-07-22 15:10:00)

Fuxino

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

The easiest way is probably to boot into a GParted Live image and do it from there. Don't forget to make a backup of all your data you don't want to lose (in case something goes wrong).

That said, you can probably free some space on your root partition by clearing the pacman cache.

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walkingstickfan

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

That said, you can probably free some space on your root partition by clearing the pacman cache.

Reference the following in the Arch Wiki for cleaning the package cache:

1.5 Cleaning the package cache

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gaming

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

Okey A kind of bad asking is there a way to get debian with live image. Again sorry we are arch users we could use arch live boot but still curious

V1del

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

Yes you could also just do it from debian... it doesn't really matter, but you need to pay close attention and if you're asking like you're asking the safest way to do this is from anything that has Gparted on it.

gaming

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

okey, Thanks it worked even able to increase my boot size thank all for help

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

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gaming

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Re: [RESOLVED]Root partition size increase

The easiest way is probably to boot into a GParted Live image and do it from there. Don't forget to make a backup of all your data you don't want to lose (in case something goes wrong).

That said, you can probably free some space on your root partition by clearing the pacman cache.

Thank well I used cfdisk in arch live image did broke my home folder
then i just mounted my home folder directly to my root folder and ya now we are here 338 Gb storage on my main drive easy staff just needed to make changed to fstab

       │ File: /etc/fstab
───────┼────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
   1   │ # Static information about the filesystems.
   2   │ # See fstab(5) for details.
   3   │ 
   4   │ # <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
   5   │ # /dev/sda7
   6   │ UUID=6d99a1ea-23d9-4195-98ce-1af561a8b2d0   /           ext4        rw,relatime 0 1
   7   │ 
   8   │ # /dev/sda6
   9   │ UUID=99df35d8-933e-4a2f-a7fe-ef2ec73de2bf   none        swap        defaults    0 0
  10   │ 
───────┴────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

Last edited by gaming (2024-07-22 15:10:50)