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fukawi2

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From: .vic.au

Registered: 2007-09-28

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Re: Free space on /

I curious as to what you fill it with. There's this tool called GNU Zip, it's pretty useful.

JPEG's are already pretty well compressed. Besides, compressing pr0n makes it slower to get to when you need it :P:P

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toasty_ghosty

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From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-01-12

Posts: 103

Re: Free space on /

Why is your /home so freakin' huge? It's larger than my entire harddrive!

This laptop is near new. Give me a couple more weeks and my /home will be near full..

-Ghosty

I curious as to what you fill it with. There's this tool called GNU Zip, it's pretty useful.

I have some videos, music, pictures and the like. I could compress a lot of it, but it always just seemed easier to leave it uncompressed. If a /home of that size seems large to you, you would hate my desktop. Just about 2.5 TB of storage and I think all but about 500GB is full..

Question though. What would be the best way to make my / larger? Gparted or something of the like?

-Ghosty

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dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: Free space on /

I recently used the gparted live cd to shrink my /home partition and grow my / partition. It worked fine but took several hours to complete, likely due to the way my partitions were layed out and the size of /home.

Before I started, I used the clonezilla livecd to take a snapshot of the entire hard drive for easy restoration should anything go wrong with gparted.