Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-12-26 10:20 (UTC+0100): > Sarah Johnson composed:
>> so is it safe to resize debian root and other partitions using windows >> machine partitioning tool ? ... > Before considering resizing partitions, the first step is to identify > what files and directories take space on the root partition and could be > removed. !!! > Informations to gather : > - partition layout > fdisk -l > - check free/used disk space > df -hT > - explore disk usage on the root filesystem > du -hcxd1 / In addition, https://wiki.debian.org/FreeSpace is worth perusing before resizing anything, particularly its package management cache references. If the installation is more than a year old, package caching could account for half the / space consumed. Cleaning it could make further investigation, and to be sure resizing, completely pointless. -- "Wisdom is supreme; therefore get wisdom. Whatever else you get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/
