Disk full - Beginner - First time user

[Ken T.]

My 2cents.  I would use gparted to shrink sda5 and grow sda6.  You'll 
want to do a backup first, but you shouldn't need to use it.  I'm sure 
that parted is installed as part of the default system, but I don't know 
if gparted is included.  In any case, you can also just use parted.  

On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:36:06 -0500, Dan Farrell wrote:

> 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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Ken T. <ktectropy at gmail.com>