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Hiya! I have a question, i have two hard drives, a 500 gb one, and a 40 gb one.
On the 40 gb one, with 4 partitons,
- One 1.5 gb swap space
- 3 gb /tmp
- 15 gb partiton for /boot
- and a 20 gb for /root or /
Now, i need to increase my /root partiton into my /home one, so my root can be a 50 gb partiton. 20 gb from the 40 gb hd, and a 30 gb from the 500 gb hard drive.
now how can i do this? help please!
sudo apt-get install gparted
So, your /home partition currently stuffs tour 500gb HD, right?
And you want to increase your root partition taking space from that other disk. Thus your root would result splitted in two physical disks (!).
I'm not sure if that's feasible. It isn't to my humble knowlegde, though. I'd say you'll need to reinstall with a better planned partition scheme.
BTW, your complicated setup caught my attention. 15 Gb for /boot: why that much? And that many partitions... is it a server? Anyway, best of luck. Perhaps someone else has a more clever idea.
EDIT: perhaps if you post the output of the following comands at terminal, someone can gain a better understanding of your setup:
Code:sudo fdisk -l
Code:sudo mount
I thought i would need that for boot, for the kernel, looks like i was mistaken.Quote:
Originally Posted by JC Cheloven
so here is the output of
Code:sudo fdisk -l
and output ofCode:
Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000bede6
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 60802 488384512 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00010638
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 426 3417088 83 Linux
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sdb2 426 4866 35662849 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 608 2432 14647296 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 2432 4866 19550208 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdc: 4040 MB, 4040748544 bytes
125 heads, 62 sectors/track, 1018 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 7750 * 512 = 3968000 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0000e09b
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 1 1018 3944719 b W95 FAT32
Code:sudo mount
Code:/dev/sdb6 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro,commit=0)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
fusectl on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sda1 on /home type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
/dev/sdb1 on /tmp type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
/dev/sdb5 on /boot type ext4 (rw,commit=0)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/theelitenoob/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=theelitenoob)
/dev/sdc1 on /media/NOOB type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uhelper=udisks,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush)
Mmmm... first of all, you think you have a swap space, but you haven't any. Swap partition should be listed by fdisk -l. It is generally advised to have a swap partition as big as your ram. Not that serious though (it will be seldom used; some people thinks it's actually a waste of disk space).
As to the rest, your former explanation was quite accurate.
Again, I may be wrong, but I think *what you intend to do is not feasible*, for the reason mentioned in my previous post.
So, some alternate advice: some 300Mb should be largely enough for /boot. You could take almost the entire 15Gb (14.7) to expand the root. You would end up with a almost a 35Gb for root. ¿Should that be convenient?
in order to do so, start from live, fire up gparted, shrink sdb5 to ~300Mb (apply changes), expand sdb6 to fill the recently freed space (apply changes)That may take a while, and is somehow prone to errors in my experience, but it should work. BTW I assume that your sensible data is in sda, thus safe regarding these operations.
If you finally consider reinstalling, and don't have any serious reason to do otherwise, I'd suggest to keep your /home in sda1 (that's good habits), but no separate partitions for /boot and /temp. Rather root (/) in a new sdb1 resized to say 38 Gb, which will include /boot & /temp as folders, and a new sdb2 of about 2Gb for swap. Both may be primary, no problem. If unsure, you can post a screenshot of gparted (on your sdb disk) before doing permanent changes.
Cheers
Hi,
I am having a similar problem too. I think after the most recent update this happened. In my case I would like to increase disk space /dev/sda1 for the /. How can I do it?
Many thanks
results for fdisk -l and mount is given below.
oyo@oyo-desktop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x97669817
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 30401 244196001 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x000c2869
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 851 6835626 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 852 14593 110382615 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 852 1419 4562428+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 1420 14593 105820123+ 83 Linux
oyo@oyo-desktop:~$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lib/ureadahead/debugfs type debugfs (rw,relatime)
/dev/sdb1 on /home type ext3 (rw)
/dev/sda6 on /usr type ext3 (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
gvfs-fuse-daemon on /home/oyo/.gvfs type fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=oyo)
Hi,
Additional information from GParted.
/dev/sda1 ext3 / 6.53GB 6.45GB 69.72MB boot
/dev/sda2 extended 105.27GB
/dev/sda5 linux-swap 4.35GB
/dev/sda6 ext3 /usr 100.92GB 10.38GB 90.52GB
@JC Cheloven
Thanks man! I'll do that now!
Really appreciate it!
Make your own thread mate...Quote:
Originally Posted by okkadiroglu
these are my problems...
You're welcome. Did you finally found your way?Quote:
Originally Posted by The Elite Noob
Yep, i first noted all the packages i downloaded, things i had installed,Quote:
Originally Posted by JC Cheloven
then reinstalled ubuntu, set / on my 40 gb partiton, and restored my software.