On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:59:19PM -0400, Richard Carter wrote: > Thanks for all the comments. > > Yes, Andrew, you are absolutely correct, I didn't read the output from > aptitude carefully enough, partly because I didn't understand what much of > it meant. So I'm especially grateful for your tutorial. > > Up to now I hadn't thought that /root was full because as df -h shows below > there is still some space left in / > robin@redcube:~$ df -h > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/redcube-root > 268M 215M 40M 85% / ... > > A better solution would be to move some space from /home to / , and perhaps > to /usr. My HD has a big, non-encrypted partition for everything except > /boot created by Logical Volume Management. This should make shifting > space around fairly straight forward, although I don't yet know how to do > it. I'll read the literature on this and if I'm confused I'll start another > thread on LVM. man resize2fs man lvresize backup! A
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