[ubuntu-za] Filesysytem >Root

[Raymond Barbour]

Raoul,
The reason for splitting the /home is that you van do a complete reinstall
of the os without losing any data.

He just needed to make the / larger. Just boot of a usb stock and resize the
partitions with gparted (back up first obviously)
Raymond
On Aug 29, 2011 1:39 PM, "Raoul Snyman" <
raoul.snyman at saturnlaboratories.co.za> wrote:
> Hi Bill, everyone else,
>
> On Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:23:42 +0200, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
>> Try this:
>>
>> cd /
>>
>> sudo du -sh *
>>
>> This should spit out the disk usage of each directory in /
>
> That's not going to help him. If you look at the output of df, you'll see
> what his problem is.
>
>>> bill at Lucy:~$ df -Th
>>> Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1 ext4 9.2G 8.1G 624M 94% /
>>> none devtmpfs 990M 328K 990M 1% /dev
>>> none tmpfs 994M 140K 994M 1% /dev/shm
>>> none tmpfs 994M 204K 994M 1% /var/run
>>> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /var/lock
>>> none tmpfs 994M 0 994M 0% /lib/init/rw
>>> /dev/sda6 ext4 138G 50G 81G 38% /home
>>> /dev/sdb1 ext4 459G 200G 236G 46% /media/Thomas
>
> I don't know why you separated your home and root directories, but you've
> made the same mistake a number of other folks have made. Your root
> filesystem is far too small.
>
> All your software is installed in /usr, all your temporary files in /tmp
> and all your working files in /var. Only YOUR files are put in /home. This
> means that all your operating system files have only 9.2 gigs of space,
> while your files have 138 gigs of space. This is rather lopsided. These
> days I prefer to let Ubuntu do my partitioning, and leave the fancy
> partitioning to sysadmins and other masochistic types ;-)
>
> As for solutions, you're going to have to resize your partitions. I don't
> know how to do that on Ubuntu/Gnome.
>
> Kind regards,
>
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