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Re: Out of root partition space

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Isn't the Debian I installed wonderful!
I ended up putting in an additional drive and repartitioning to solve this.

On Tue, Dec 26, 2017, 8:34 AM john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> wrote:

> On 12/26/2017 5:04 AM, Doug wrote:
> >
> > On 12/25/2017 08:44 PM, Sarah Johnson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> I ran out of root partition disk space and can't install or remove any
> >> more packages or even login gui window manager anymore
> >>
> >> i spent few good hours researching for solutions and found that i can
> >> resize root and home partitions using resize2fs and lvresize tools but
> >> they are not even installed on my system
> >>
> >> so is it safe to resize debian root and other partitions using windows
> >> machine partitioning tool ?
> >> knowing that my debian installation is on a USB stick
> >>
> >> Thanks
> >> --
> >> Sarah Johnson
> > Why not download GParted--the version that runs off a CD, and burn
> > it--and use that? At least it's Linux, and has a lot of capability, like
> > changing partition sizes, making new ones, moving existing ones, etc.
> >
>
> Rescue mode seems a good choise to start with.
> I wouldn't use windows for that unless you have some spare time! :)
> Maybe backing up your home partition might be a good idea.
>
> --
> John Doe
>
>

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Out of root partition space Sarah Johnson <sarah-johnson-1990@list.ru> - 2017-12-26 03:10 +0100
  Re: Out of root partition space Doug <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> - 2017-12-26 05:10 +0100
    Re: Out of root partition space john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2017-12-26 07:40 +0100
      Re: Out of root partition space David Baron <dbaron770@gmail.com> - 2017-12-26 08:40 +0100
  Re: Out of root partition space Pascal Hambourg <pascal@plouf.fr.eu.org> - 2017-12-26 10:30 +0100
    Re: Out of root partition space Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-26 11:00 +0100
  Re: Out of root partition space Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2018-01-03 18:10 +0100

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