On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Onkar Shinde <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Leena<[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Is there any way I can increase /root partition's size after > > installation, using gparted? > > or anyway to change directory for default installation files from /root > > to /home" > > I have Ubuntu 8.04 in a system having Hard disk of size 40GB. > > I used manual partition option and following is how I have parted the > disk > > /root: 3GB or 3000mb > > swap: 1.6GB > > /home: remaining (say @36GB) > I have a solution if problem is not yet solved, Use dd command to move root partition into a larger partition, or use dd to move temporarily and then move it back after increasing > > > > > Now after installation I ran updates. now when I try to install new > > program, system giving me following error: "There is no space in /root > > and you need to delete some files to save new" > > > > any help on this please.... > > 1. It looks like the packages which were downloaded as updates filled > up the / partition. > First thing you can try is cleanup these packages with command 'sudo > apt-get clean'. > 2. You can not change package installation path from / to /home. > 3. It is not possible to resize the partition when you have booted in > same OS. It is possible to resize partition with a Live CD. Either use > Ubuntu live CD or gparted live CD. You will have to boot from live CD, > decrease the size of /home partition on your hard disk and then > increase of / partition. At no point of time you should format the > partition or change the partitioning structure. > > Hope this helps. > > > Onkar > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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