[SOLVED] Expanding /home partition

[markious]

So I recently installed Ubuntu on a blank 250GB HD..

When I was doing the partitions I separated the / and /home and /bin etc

Ultimately I gave 30GB to my /home.


However I kind of need a bit more space now.

There is still a lot of empty space on my HD and I want to know is it possible to increase the size of my /home by about 20 GB?


Cheers

Mark

[devils casper]

Its really easy to resize partitions but we have to check partition structure of your Hard disk first.
Execute this in Terminal :

sudo fdisk -l
df -h

Post output here.

* Its small L in fdisk -l.

[oz]

The Parted Magic LiveCD usually makes easy work of managing partitions so you might want to give it a try. I think the Ubuntu liveCD has gparted on it as well, which should work.

[markious]

Ok I did that
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##output##

mark@mark-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for mark: 

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000df18f

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1        1338    10740736   83  Linux
/dev/sda2            1338        5581    34085889    5  Extended
/dev/sda5            1338        5095    30179328   83  Linux
/dev/sda6            5095        5399     2440192   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7            5399        5581     1464320   83  Linux

mark@mark-laptop:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1              11G  3.9G  5.8G  41% /
none                  620M  304K  620M   1% /dev
none                  624M  752K  623M   1% /dev/shm
none                  624M  100K  624M   1% /var/run
none                  624M     0  624M   0% /var/lock
none                  624M     0  624M   0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5              29G  2.1G   25G   8% /home
/dev/sda7             1.4G   50M  1.3G   4% /boot

[devils casper]

There is a lot of free space but problem is, there are 2 partitions between /home and free space.

Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD. It has Disk Utility in System - Administration menu. ( You can use PartedMagic LiveCD too. Disk Utility of Ubuntu and PartedMagic are based on same package, parted. )


1. Increase the size of /dev/sda7 (/boot) partition to 20GB by sliding its Right side handle. Hit Apply button.
2. Shrink sda7 partition to 200MB by moving its Left slider. This will create a free space between sda6 (swap) and sda7 partition.
3. Resize sda6 to use free space.
4. Shrink sda6 by moving its left slider to create free space between sda5 (/home) and sda6.
5. Resize sda5 to use all the free space between sda5 and sda6.

You have create 1GB /boot (/dev/sda7) partition but 120MB for /boot is more than enough. Resize it to 200MB to be on safer side ( in case you want to keep a lot of old kernels in /boot).

[markious]

There is a lot of free space but problem is, there are 2 partitions between /home and free space.

There's not really tat much space, as I have to import a lot of music .

Boot up from Ubuntu LiveCD. It has Disk Utility in System - Administration menu.

Do I need to use the Ubuntu Live CD? As there is Disk Utility already on my System when I boot in normally?

1. Increase the size of /dev/sda7 (/boot) partition to 20GB by sliding its Right side handle. Hit Apply button.
2. Shrink sda7 partition to 200MB by moving its Left slider. This will create a free space between sda6 (swap) and sda7 partition.
3. Resize sda6 to use free space.
4. Shrink sda6 by moving its left slider to create free space between sda5 (/home) and sda6.
5. Resize sda5 to use all the free space between sda5 and sda6.

You have create 1GB /boot (/dev/sda7) partition but 120MB for /boot is more than enough. Resize it to 200MB to be on safer side ( in case you want to keep a lot of old kernels in /boot).

Thanks Ill do this now in a minute

[devils casper]

You can resize mounted partitions. You have to boot up from LiveCD only. If you don't have Ubuntu LiveCD, download PartedMagic LiveCD or USB.

[markious]

You can resize mounted partitions. You have to boot up from LiveCD only. If you don't have Ubuntu LiveCD, download PartedMagic LiveCD or USB.

Cheers mate will do that now

[devils casper]

Alright ! Do let us know how it goes. Good luck !

[markious]

Having a slight problem with this.

When I boot up using my Ubuntu Live CD and go into Disk Utility It will not let me increase the size of the /boot partition (I cannot slide it to the right).