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Re: resize root partition ?



On 2 Apr 05 17:25:13 GMT, skaboss <skaboss@mail.ru> wrote:

> I'm a totally noob who installed Sarge one week ago, and enjoy it a lot.
> I left the installer deal with partitioning, and here is how it partitioned my 
> disk :
>
> / : 250 Mb
> /usr : 4.6 Gb
> /var : 2.8 Gb
> /tmp : 360 Mb
> /home : 45.6 Gb
>
> All is under ext3.
>
> I ran KDiskFree today, and saw with horror that my / partition is almost 
> full !! (93% used)
>
> Is there any way to resize my root partition, or maybe it's useless because it 
> won't grow anymore ?

250MB should be plenty for a / partition without /usr, /var, /tmp and
/home. It's likely most of the space is taken by /lib/modules where
kernel modules are stored. Having only two kernel packages installed
can eat 60 to 80MB:

root@thingy:~# ll /lib/modules
total 8
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 1024 2005-01-28 18:27 ./
drwxr-xr-x  12 root root 5120 2005-04-02 16:37 ../
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 1024 2005-02-07 01:16 2.4.27-2-k6/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root root 1024 2005-02-07 01:21 2.6.8-2-386/

root@thingy:~# du -sh /lib/modules/*
26M	/lib/modules/2.4.27-2-k6
36M	/lib/modules/2.6.8-2-386

Try uninstalling any kernel packages other than the one you are
actually booting with.

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