Disk full - Beginner - First time user

[Dan Farrell]

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:24:21 -0700
"Midnite Mac (.com)" <midnitemac at me.com> wrote:

> I'd have to agree with Dan here. He makes a good point. My 2 cents,
> I would backup everthing. Then, re-install ad move the /root
> directory to more like a minimium of 4GB's.
> 
> Again, just my 2 cents as I'm a newbie. And have fallen in love with  
> Ubuntu just as you have ;)
> 
> Enjoy and good luck!
>

Good idea.  or put it on that 14G partition - that would be even
better.  

you could get by without a completely new install if you could copy the
files over between partitions, and tell grub / the kernel which
partition was the new root partition.  someone on this list must know
how to do that; if not , the internet probably does.  

one of the great things about linux, it's not super picky about
hardware changes, unlike _some_ operating systems.  


> On Jul 31, 2009, at 9:18 PM, Dan Farrell <dan at spore.ath.cx> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 11:37:31 +0800
> > AC Perdon <turf.ph at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> I could see that your / partition is 100% so the solution I could
> >> think is do a house keeping look for a file that is eating up the
> >> filesystem
> >
> > this is a good idea, but I'm afraid you'll find that since your
> > partition started out so small, there's little you can do to free up
> > space.
> >
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