[CVALE] Out of disk space...Up a creek with no paddle?

[Patrick Bennett]

If you truly want to resize (or otherwise dicker with) your partitions, 
I think the open source tool to look at is GNU Parted ("/sbin/parted" on 
my command line): http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/index.shtml .  
There are also commercial tools such as Partition Magic available (or at 
least there used to be... haven't needed one in years myself).

Be afraid.  Be very afraid.  Well, back up first.  Then, be afraid.  Be 
very afraid.

    -Patrick


Landon Blake wrote:
> Thanks Patrick, Matt and Ian for the help with this. You guys really
> saved my bacon. :] I'll make sure I get a full backup before I use that
> nifty little software update button again.
>
> I was able to free about 14% of my root partition by running the
> "apt-get clean command."
>
> I still would like to resize my ext2 partitions so that my root
> partition has some more space, while my home partition has a little
> less. Is there a way to do this with out reformatting the drive and
> having to reinstall my OS?
>
> Landon
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com
> [mailto:cvale-bounces at lists.fire2wire.com] On Behalf Of Ian Sterling
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 8:50 PM
> To: cvale at cvale.org
> Subject: Re: [CVALE] Out of disk space...Up a creek with no paddle?
>
> I'm tellin' ya - before I saw Patrick do the Alt-Fx trick, I never
> knew about the multiple TTYs.  They can be a life saver.
>
> Matt and Patrick both gave you the answer to your problem there.
> Debian's good about saving the packages, but occasionally you want to
> go remove them.  Once you've removed the apt packages, if you need
> more space, you can easily remove anything in /tmp or /var/tmp (your
> mileage may vary with this though) since those two directories are
> *supposed* to be for temporary files.  (In other words, you can delete
> them with no consequence to the system)
>
> Just my 2c worth.
>
> --Ian...
>
> On 11/7/06, Matt R Hall <mhall at mhcomputing.net> wrote:
>   
>> apt-get saves packages it's already downloaded in case you have to
>> fiddle with them and remove / reinstall to get them functioning right,
>> or if you want to use them on other machines. apt-get clean deletes
>> everything in the repository and apt-get auto-clean deletes everything
>> it thinks you have installed already. For me, auto-clean does not seem
>> to work so well so I do not really recommend it.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Matt
>>
>> On 11/7/06, Patrick Bennett <stnick at bennettbungalow.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Try logging into a console / command line interface (from gnome do
>>> ctrl-alt-f1 for instance) and getting to a root prompt (you may have
>>>       
> to
>   
>>> log in as a standard user than do "su" to get root access). Then
>>>       
> issue
>   
>>> the commands: "apt-get clean" and "apt-get auto-clean".... You may
>>>       
> find
>   
>>> that this clears up a buttload of hard drive space. What it does is
>>> delete the apt packages cache, or something along those lines (see
>>>       
> man
>   
>>> apt-get for more info).
>>>
>>> -Patrick
>>>       
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