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I installed the Archbang distro a couple of months ago and other then RubyOnRails libs and Latex (which I am now uninstalling) I haven't installed that much more.
I have cleared the pacman cache `sudo pacman -Scc`, but am still using 78%, 67% with Latex removed.
Using gparted, can I safely increase the size of the root partition?
Last edited by iso (2011-04-13 18:02:05)
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I suppose the best answer is: it depends.
The more info you give about your hard disk, file systems and partitions, the better the advice.
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Here you go
[chris@archlinux ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 10240 260 9980 3% /dev
/dev/sda3 7060308 4120388 2581272 62% /
shm 1897880 812 1897068 1% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 38888 14882 21998 41% /boot
/dev/sda4 473099188 33354924 415712232 8% /home
[chris@archlinux ~]$
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Increasing the size of the root partition should work as long as you can resize the following partition (in your case this is sda4). I've done this a couple of times for virtual machines running Arch and never experienced any problems. Moving around or playing with your boot partition is something that might bite you, though you wouldn't have to touch your boot partition in your case.
I see you don't have separate partitions for /tmp and /var; I've seen some log files in /var growing to enormous sizes, so you might want to run something like this to see if there are huge files you could do without:
du / | sort -n
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Agreed that it is a good idea to have /var separate - especially as pacman's cache sits there as well.
As for / some people get away with 4GB, others with 30GB. 15GB should suffice for most needs (and give you plenty of space to install whatever you like).
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To attack the problem from the other end, try running "pacgraph -c", that will tell you if there are any other huge applications sitting on your drive.
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Or if you can not safely increase the / partition you can move the cache to whatever partition or harddisk you wish with pacman.conf and the CacheDir option.
http://www.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman.conf.5.html
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I will try resizing the partitions when I finish up a project. I am curious to why the default partition size is so small considering most hardware setups now days consist of a harddrive of at least 500GB.
Thanks for the help
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