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Re: resize root partition ?




On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Frank Copeland wrote:

> 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

good ..

> > All is under ext3.
> >
> > I ran KDiskFree today, and saw with horror that my / partition is almost 
> > full !! (93% used)

to see which junk is taking up the space

	du /root /lib /etc /dev /bin /sbin

256MB is (2x) more than enough for / when you have /home, /var, /tmp, /usr

-- something in /root is probably biting your butt

-- you probably are googling as root .. don't do that
	- turn off cache and all the other bookmarks for root

c ya
alvin



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