is the size ok

osc~ · 2007-12-25 02:43:22

is this rigth?
should /dev/sda3 be larger.

df -h
Sist. Arq.            Tam   Usad Disp  Uso% Montado em
/dev/sda3             7,3G  6,1G  839M  89% /
none                  505M     0  505M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1              38M  9,5M   27M  27% /boot
/dev/sda4              84G   40G   41G  50% /home

if so i tried making it a bit larger with gparted but couldnt manage to unmount it.

ralvez · 2007-12-25 03:48:59

I think it is a bit tight. I would give it 15G to be on the safe side. You already have 90% of the partition used as it is; so give it a bit more room.

R.

ebirtaid · 2007-12-25 03:57:49

to resize / you will have to either use a gparted live cd or boot into another OS, you can't unmount / from within the OS ;p

kensai · 2007-12-25 04:06:33

To resize use system rescue cd the best tool I have found. Just start gparted from the cd and voila. But, hey, you got a lot of stuff in / my / is just 10GB and is only using 3GB with a full blown gnome desktop office suite and games.

Last edited by kensai (2007-12-25 04:07:36)

Allan · 2007-12-25 05:37:46

Have you ever cleaned the pacman cache (pacman -Sc)? That may free up a lot.

Last edited by Allan (2007-12-25 05:38:02)

wuischke · 2007-12-25 08:02:44

I think the size should be OK, I use generally 8GB for my root partition with a separate /home partition and a data partition.
Once you've your system set up the needed space in the root partition will not grow a lot, so this size should be OK.

iphitus · 2007-12-25 09:05:16

7gb is fine, I typically use 5gb myself. Just make sure you clear out your pacman cache frequently, using "pacman -Sc"

kensai · 2007-12-25 13:54:09

Or if you have a fast enough internet connection, pacman -Scc might do a better job.

dante4d · 2007-12-25 16:06:01

LVM2 saves me of troubles

[dante4d ~]$ df
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/vg0-root  8.0G  4.3G  3.8G  54% /
none                  506M     0  506M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/mapper/vg0-home   30G   13G   18G  44% /home
/dev/sda1              92M   11M   76M  13% /boot

If I ever run out of space I'll just do 'lvm lvextend -L +1G /dev/vg0/root' followed by 'resize_reiserfs -s +1G /dev/vg0/root' (I'm not sure if it's correct syntax now ).

osc~ · 2007-12-29 12:29:41

ebirtaid wrote:

to resize / you will have to either use a gparted live cd or boot into another OS, you can't unmount / from within the OS ;p

i used an ubuntu live cd to use gparted.
will i loose data if i redimension my sda4 (/home). because it seems complicated to do. how to change the size of / without messing with /home?

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