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Re: Out of root partition space

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Pascal Hambourg composed on 2017-12-26 10:20 (UTC+0100):

> Sarah Johnson composed:

>> so is it safe to resize debian root and other partitions using windows machine partitioning tool ?
...
> Before considering resizing partitions, the first step is to identify 
> what files and directories take space on the root partition and could be 
> removed.                               

!!!

> Informations to gather :
> - partition layout
> fdisk -l
> - check free/used disk space
> df -hT
> - explore disk usage on the root filesystem
> du -hcxd1 /                     

In addition, https://wiki.debian.org/FreeSpace is worth perusing before resizing
anything, particularly its package management cache references. If the
installation is more than a year old, package caching could account for half the
/ space consumed. Cleaning it could make further investigation, and to be sure
resizing, completely pointless.
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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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