[COLUG] Partitioning Hard Drive

[Travis Sidelinger]

I'd say just resize your file systems and move some LVM extents around,
but Ubuntu does include LVM support be default.

Look into resize2fs.  You should be able to shrink the size of your home
directory.  Then you using fdisk, carve out some partitions for /var and
/tmp.  I would recommend 2G for /var and 1G for /tmp.  Maybe even look
up what Ubuntu recommends.  You'll need to bring the system up in single
user mode to move /var and /tmp to their new partitions.  Make sure when
you copy the files to /var that you use a file copy tool that handles
pipes, hard links, symlinks, ownership, and mode.

I'm not sure on your level of experience, but this can get quite
complicated for a Linux newbie.  I've only briefed touched on the steps
this will it take above.  Your simplest solution maybe be to backup your
home directory and reinstall the whole system.

Travis Sidelinger

Mark Erbaugh wrote:
> When I first installed Ubuntu Dapper on my notebook computer, I created
> a small partition for / and a large partition for /home. I am now close
> to filling my / partition and there is lots of space left on the /home
> partition.
> 
> Is there an easy way to increase or free up space on the / partition?
> Since I am the only user on the notebook, if I had to do over, I don't
> think I would create two partitions. Is that appropriate?
> 
> Mark Erbaugh
> 
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