Out of space error.

[Matthew Flaschen]

Ian wrote:
> Disk /dev/sda: 40.0GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type     File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  40.0GB  40.0GB  primary  ntfs         boot

Okay, straightforward, 40 GB for Windows.  Probably more than you need,
but since it's on a second hard drive we'll ignore it for now.

> Disk /dev/sdb: 120GB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: msdos
> 
> Number  Start   End     Size    Type      File system  Flags
>  1      32.3kB  60.0GB  60.0GB  extended               lba  
>  5      64.5kB  59.2GB  59.2GB  logical   ext3              
>  6      59.2GB  60.0GB  765MB   logical   linux-swap        
>  2      60.0GB  120GB   60.0GB  primary   ext3              
> 
> 
> OK, I remember part of the problem - I have both a Mint and a Debian
> install on my second hard drive (120G).

Yes... that would be sdb5.

  I never use the Debian so I'll
> do some googling and try and recover that space.

You would have to do repartitioning with GParted
(http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php).  I'm not sure whether this
particular set of operations (erasing partition 1, moving partition 2 to
the beginning of the disk, then expanding both partition 2 and the
filesystem) can be done losslessly.  At any rate, I would definitely do
a backup of critical data first.

  But still, a 60G
> partition seems  /really/ huge to me - yes I know /really huge/ is
> relative.

:)

> Before I try and get rid of the Debian partition, can you post a couple
> of the tools for displaying how disk space is being utilized that you
> mentioned?

I like KDE's File Size View (View->File Size View) in Konqueror.  This
is part of konq-plugins (not sure if this is installed by default).  Or,
 if you like the command line, there's good old du (see man du).  Set a
max-depth so you don't get flooded with output.

Matt Flaschen