Running out of disk space in Root partition

**arbk** · 10-09-2007

Hi all,
I am a newbie to the world of Linux. I have installed Suse 10.2 (64 bit) version on my computer. But I am running out of disk space in root partition. I have lot of space in the partition where my home directory in present. These 2 partitions are adjacent to each other. Is there any way i can transfer some disk space form my home directory's partition to my root partition?

**devils casper** · 10-09-2007

Execute this

Code:

df -h

Post output here.

**arbk** · 10-09-2007

/dev/sda9 5.0G 4.7G 56M 99% /
udev 235M 92K 234M 1% /dev
/dev/sda10 3.2G 2.1G 895M 71% /home
/dev/sda1 9.4G 9.3G 90M 100% /windows/C
/dev/sda5 14G 14G 770M 95% /windows/D
/dev/sda6 19G 19G 0 100% /windows/E
/dev/sda7 9.8G 9.8G 4.8M 100% /windows/F

**bigtomrodney** · 10-09-2007

Check your /tmp directory, you may be able to delete some unneeded or old files from there.

**arbk** · 10-09-2007

Not of much use.
Could free only some 20 MB of disk space by deleting tmp files.
Anyway Thanks for the suggestion.

regards,
Bharath.

**devils casper** · 10-10-2007

What is in /dev/sda8 partition? Execute fdisk -l command and post output here.
You can shrink /dev/sda8 and/or /dev/sda10 and assign free space to /dev/sda9. Download Gparted or PartedMagic LiveCDs.

**arbk** · 10-13-2007

Thanks for replying all of you.
@ devil_casper: When I tried to execute "fdisk -l" I got "bash: fdisk: command not found" error. I don't know why.
Anyway I solved this problem by freeing up some space in my windows partitions. Added this space to my Linux partitions. And then reinstalled Suse Linux, mounting my / (root) as well as /home (home) directories on same drive of 10GB size. Now i have lot of free space in this drive.
There might be better ways of doing this, as "devils_casper" was suggesting, using qtparted, or partedmagic or Gparted, As a rookie I found the above step easier.

Thanking you all once again,
arbk

**gogalthorp** · 10-14-2007

You need to be root to run fdisk

type
su
then you root password (note the password will not echo to the screen)
press enter then you are running as root.

As long as you did not have important stuff on those partitions how you did it was fine.

**Jonathan183** · 06-11-2008

Bit of an odd place to post

... why don't you use the Partedmagic live CD to resize partitions ? ... links given by devils casper in post #6.

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