On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 17:26, richard lyons wrote:
On Friday 21 May 2004 16:52, Brent Bailey wrote:
A couple of weeks ago I installed debian sarge with d-i beta3. I kept with the default partition sizes given with the multi-user set-up, which set up / with 135468 K on a 80G drive. Now / is full, and every other partition is hardly used. I can't mount a cdrom to burn a copy of my files from home that I need. All partitions are ext3. Is there a way to add more space to / (preferably from /home) without having to re-format both partitions?
What is your present partitioning scheme? What do df and mount say?
df: /dev/sda1 135468 134724 0 100% / tmpfs 452892 0 452892 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda5 4807056 1533208 3029664 34% /usr /dev/sda6 2885780 863160 1876032 32% /var /dev/sda7 15022 1060 13161 8% /tmp /dev/sda8 68571736 5397808 59690636 9% /home
That seems a perfectly reasonable scheme to me. You might want to double check that something isn't on the root partition that shouldn't be['du -m --max-depth=3 -x / | sort -n']. /root should be almost empty, /opt shouldn't be on the root partition if you are using it[putting it on the /usr partition is one idea], and nothing should take up a lot of space on /etc. The exception to this last point is /etc/gconf, but I consider that a bug[which is already reported #227726, but the reporter is off by an order of magnitude[/etc/gconf/ is *19MB* for me, I also question the need for /etc/X11 to be 15MB, mostly due to /etc/X11/xserver/C/print/models/PSdefault/fonts/]]. There also isn't much point in having more than 2 kernels on the system. Don't get me wrong, it is possible for / to legitimately need more than 130MB[and if you really aren't using the space elsewhere than you might as well make it bigger], it's just that my / is only 95MB, and I've seen posts from other people to suggest that that is on the high end.
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