Out of space

[Richard Barmann]

I have followed all the instructions down to the below apt-get clean and 
apt-get remove. This was purged in an earlier Email. I tried to run the

grep linux /boot/grub/grub.cfg > /tmp/grubcfg.txt

but did not get any action.??


On 08/02/2016 08:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 11:53:11 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 1 August 2016 at 19:26, Richard Barmann <reb at barmannsbar.com> wrote:
>>> I did all below but I just want to delete the Windows program. How
>>> is the best way to do that?
>> Are you sure?
> Hi,
>
> perhaps Richard just refers to my advice to mount Windows, taking a
> look at it and if wanted, to copy data, before formatting the
> Windows partition to ext4.
>
> Todo
> ====
>
> All in one, in a sane order, so you could ignore all previous advices
> (assuming I have not forgotten an important advice ;).
>
> Richard, by all means run
>
>    sudo apt-get clean
>    sudo apt-get autoremove
>    sudo apt-get purge $(dpkg -l linux*|grep -v $(uname -r|sed "s/[[:alpha:]]//g;s/.$//g;s/-/./g")|grep -v base|grep -v firmware|grep ii|cut -d" " -f3)
>
> As already pointed out, the purge might not be required, but clean and
> autoremove are needed, to ensure that the install can be used without
> running out of space, to e.g. migrate to another partition, which would
> be one possibility, you/we could do.
>
> Run
>
>    grep linux /boot/grub/grub.cfg > /tmp/grubcfg.txt
>
> and attach
>
>    /tmp/grubcfg.txt
>
> and
>
>    /etc/fstab
>
> to an email, this most likely will help us, what are all those Linux
> partitions good for.
>
> Run
>
>    sudo apt-get update
>
> to update your package index, after that execute
>
>    sudo apt-get install gparted
>
> to install one of the most used partitioning tools with a GUI.
>
> Launch gparted
>
>    sudo gparted
>
> select "/dev/sda1 ntfs" with the mouse. Right-click and select "Format
> to" and chose "ext4". On top push click "Apply" and continue. Perhaps
> it asks for confirmation, but everything that follows should be
> self-explaining.
>
> When finished post the output of
>
>    blkid /dev/sda1
>
> What we already know about your install is attached.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>

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