réjean Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 (edited) Hi all! A few months ago I installed Ubuntu 14.04 mostly to have a look at it and to learn how it work. I didn't think I would use it a lot so I used an unused partition for it which is only 9.8 GB or so but with a bigger /home partition. I have been using it almost all the time since and now I am told the / partition is getting too full. Beside reinstalling Ubuntu on a bigger partition is there anything I can do? Edited October 1, 2014 by réjean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amenditman Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Use GParted and resize those partitions. GParted is available as a bootable image, in the PartedMagic bootable distro, and several others. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Exactly Boot a livecd and use gparted or similar to resize your / partition from your /home partitions space Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 In my haste to make sure I had the picture included I forgot a major detail. Here is what I have; linux-047a:/home/rejean # fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x00011388 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 2048 66061327 33029640 83 Linux /dev/sda2 66074624 170932223 52428800 83 Linux /dev/sda3 170947726 1953520064 891286169+ 5 Extended /dev/sda5 170947728 215977859 22515066 83 Linux /dev/sda6 215977923 232348094 8185086 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7 232348158 1256347259 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda8 1256347648 1275576319 9614336 83 Linux /dev/sda9 1275578368 1324382207 24401920 83 Linux /dev/sda10 1324382598 1396482254 36049828+ 83 Linux /dev/sda11 1396482318 1433319299 18418491 83 Linux /dev/sda12 1433319363 1490655284 28667961 83 Linux /dev/sda13 1490659328 1543669784 26505228+ 83 Linux /dev/sda14 1543669848 1593455219 24892686 83 Linux /dev/sda15 1593455283 1686455504 46500111 83 Linux /dev/sda16 1686458368 1733542019 23541826 83 Linux /dev/sda17 1733542083 1774234664 20346291 83 Linux /dev/sda18 1774234728 1834799714 30282493+ 83 Linux /dev/sda19 1834799778 1875540554 20370388+ 83 Linux /dev/sda20 1875540618 1953520064 38989723+ 83 Linux Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0xeb58eb58 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sdb1 * 63 204796619 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sdb2 204796620 1433592404 614397892+ 5 Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sdb3 1433593856 1475538943 20972544 83 Linux /dev/sdb4 1475538944 1953523711 238992384 83 Linux /dev/sdb5 204796683 409593239 102398278+ 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Partition 5 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sdb6 409593303 1433592404 511999551 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Partition 6 does not start on physical sector boundary. linux-047a:/home/rejean # I am replying from OpenSuSE btw. Ubuntu / is on /dev/sda8 with about 9.8 GB while Ubuntu /home is on /dev/sda9 with about 24 GB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted October 1, 2014 Author Share Posted October 1, 2014 I should probably get rid of Debian jessie/sid (dev/sda11) with 17 GB which I never use anyway and install Ubuntu there instead but keep /dev/sda9 (24 GB) for /home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted October 1, 2014 Share Posted October 1, 2014 Basically I was saying that you could reduce the /home partition that you use for Ubuntu and increase the / partition but looking at your paritiition list, that may be a little different in your case. Either way, I think you should have no problem with gparted via a livecd (since the partition cannot be mounted). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sunrat Posted October 2, 2014 Share Posted October 2, 2014 Have you emptied apt cache? apt-get clean or maybe some other ubuntu way to do it also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 We are making some progress; before rejean@rejean-G41MT-S2PT:~$ sudo df -H / [sudo] password for rejean: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 9.6G 8.3G 818M 91% / and after your command; rejean@rejean-G41MT-S2PT:~$ sudo df -H / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8 9.6G 7.8G 1.4G 86% / That's almost 600 MB right there and the suggestion I was looking for instead of resizing the partitions which would be fine if I had only one distro on one hd. Thanks sunrat! I'll see if I can free up more space emptying the /temp folder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
réjean Posted October 2, 2014 Author Share Posted October 2, 2014 Nothing to waste my time on there. I'll keep on searching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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