Re: How to can make a partition in my hard disk ?

[Bret Busby <bret@busby.net>]

On 20/10/22 06:19, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 20/10/22 05:51, William Torrez Corea wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 3:34 PM Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com 
> > <mailto:jdashiel@panix.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     This is likely inaccurate information.
> >     What output returns when you run:
> >     lsblk /dev/sda?
> >     First requirement for a new partition is available space.
> >
> >
> > I have the following output:
> >
> > NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
> > sda      8:0    0 931.5G  0 disk
> > ├─sda1   8:1    0 922.7G  0 part /
> > └─sda2   8:2    0   8.8G  0 part [SWAP]
> >
> > I have 770.83 GB free memory
> > --
> >
> > With kindest regards, William.
> >
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> How much RAM does the computer have?
>
> I would be inclined to use gparted to resize the partitions; you only 
> need, at most, 32GB for /  and you should have a separate /home 
> partition, and, you should have (I believe) a 32GB swap partition.
>
> Is the HDD, MBR or GPT?
>
> ..
> Bret Busby
> Armadale
> West Australia
> (UTC+0800)
> ..............

What do you get, if you run
du -h /home
?

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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