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





On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:32 PM Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> wrote:
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
?

..
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............


39G /home
7.7 GiB memory

What command gives this information (HDD, MBR or GPT)?
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With kindest regards, William.

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