Disk full - Beginner - First time user

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 20:05:42 -0700 (PDT)
Tiago Pereira <t27026t at yahoo.com.br> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> After so many year suffering with windows I decided to migrate to
> linux. 

good for you, welcome to the wonderful world of unix.  

> However, now I see that my disk is full. 

yes, because you've created a 2.3GB partition for all of /, which is
not enough for anything but a very, very limited installation.  

> Is the any procedure I can do to fix this?

there are a few options.  You could possibly change the root filesystem
to a different partition by booting off a livecd (so you don't already
have partitions mounted), creating a new partition/filesystem (maybe in
place of sda5?), and then copying contents of sda6 to sda5.  

another option is to move a directory that takes up a lot of space,
like /usr, to another partition.  to do that, you'd probably have to
boot from a cd, because you'd need things in /usr while you did the
move.  but once it was moved, and the machine was configured to
mount /usr on boot, you should be able to continue running the system
normally.  

> 
> Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
> [...]
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  
> /dev/sda1   *           1        7649    61440561    7  
> /dev/sda2            7650        9729    16707600    f 
> /dev/sda5            7650        9403    14088973+   7
> /dev/sda6            9404        9707     2441848+  83
> /dev/sda7            9708        9729      176683+  82  

So if I'm not mistaken: 
sda1	windows partition
sda2 	extended partition
sda5	another windows partition (NTFS at least)
sda6	linux partition 
sda7 	swap

> Disk /dev/sdb: 1998 MB, 1998585856 bytes
this looks like a  usb thumb drive, sd card, or similar; irrelevant.  i
am ignoring it.  

good use of df here!  i am removing irrelevant lines.  
> tiago at tiago-desktop:~$ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda6             2.3G  2.2G     0 100% /
> /dev/sda1              59G   45G   15G  76% /media/disk
> /dev/sda5              14G   92M   14G   1% /media/disk-1
 
So, you're using 92 megs of sda5, a 14 gig partition.  can you
repurpose it for linux usage?  if so, perhaps ubuntu experts can help
you move big directories like /usr onto a seperate partition.

if you want to go ahead with these ideas, you'll need ubuntu-specific
help on how to do so.  I could tell you how to do it in gentoo, but I
think ubuntu would override our configuration changes and you'd end up
with a broken system.  

but the problem is very solvable.