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Re: Out of root partition space

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Sarah Johnson <sarah-johnson-1990@list.ru> writes:

> 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

No.  MS tools don't understand Linux filesystems.

By any chance is your /var/cache/apt/archives/ on your root partition?
If so, you can remove all the .deb files from that directory to free up
some space so you can install some repartitioning tools.

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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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