[Solved] Messed up with partitions during installation.

eDio · 2009-11-09 21:34:49

Just yesterday I was happy with linux, but today I can't boot to it.

Brief inspection showed, that there is no free space on my / partition, because I have used accidentally my 4 GB home as my / during installation. So now I have 20 GB /home and 4 GB /.

I want to know, will it work if I login as root to livecd move all data to necessary partitions (swap /home ◄► /) and fix fstab?

TNX in advance.

Last edited by eDio (2009-11-12 15:25:55)

grey · 2009-11-09 21:52:12

I'd resize the partitions instead of swapping them, using gparted from a gparted liveCD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php). Hasn't let me down yet.

eDio · 2009-11-09 22:21:51

This is really better idea than mine. Thank you.
Good, that my /home is near /.

I will try (possibly tomorrow, because it is very late now) and reply about results.

Gen2ly · 2009-11-10 00:44:46

Might think about looking at the Parted Magic cd. It has gparted on it plus other maintenance tools (cloning, disk rescue, shredder...) on one cd.

eDio · 2009-11-12 15:25:27

I have used ubuntu livecd and gparted.

The problem was not in full root partition itself, but in empty menu.lst file.
KDE grub editor could not save this file after editing, maybe because of full root partition.

Thanks for help!

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#1 2009-11-09 21:34:49

[Solved] Messed up with partitions during installation.

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