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gallaharsha
June 23rd, 2009, 05:39 AM
Hi,

I m using Ubuntu Jaunty and I have allocated around 5 Gb to Home and 20 gb to root partitions.I don't understand that within few days of use I am not able to perform anything like writing a text file. It shows me an error that there is no space on home. How to overcome this error.

Best Regards,
Harsha galla

raymondh
June 23rd, 2009, 05:57 AM
Hi,

I m using Ubuntu Jaunty and I have allocated around 5 Gb to Home and 20 gb to root partitions.I don't understand that within few days of use I am not able to perform anything like writing a text file. It shows me an error that there is no space on home. How to overcome this error.

Best Regards,
Harsha galla

/home is for your personal files and settings ..... have you been putting such in your system?

In terminal, type and post back results of


df -h

A link for reading.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoverLostDiskSpace

gallaharsha
June 23rd, 2009, 06:17 AM
This is what i get with the above command:



Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1 19G 3.2G 15G 18% /
tmpfs 249M 0 249M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 249M 212K 249M 1% /var/run
varlock 249M 0 249M 0% /var/lock
udev 249M 172K 249M 1% /dev
tmpfs 249M 112K 249M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 249M 2.4M 247M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile
/dev/sdb3 4.6G 4.4G 25M 100% /home
/dev/sdb6 26G 22G 4.2G 84% /media/sdb6
/dev/sda5 30G 14G 16G 47% /media/sda5
/dev/sda6 21G 16G 5.7G 74% /media/sda6
/dev/sdb5 25G 15G 11G 59% /media/sdb5
/dev/sda1 25G 19G 5.8G 77% /media/Windows

merlinus
June 23rd, 2009, 06:32 AM
From what I can see, you have two choices: move some of your data from /home to a different partition, or use gparted to shrink sdb5 and add the freed-up space to it.

Obviously a third is to archive material from /home to dvds or external drive.

Although this is the proverbial locking of the barn door after the horses have fled, whenever installing a new os it is well worth the time to do some investigating beforehand, as well as assessing your specific needs. For example, 7G for / is more than enough, and then you would have had lots more space for /home.

gallaharsha
June 23rd, 2009, 06:39 AM
Hi,
I already have windows xp and windows 7 partitions among those while the sdb5 u have suggested to shrink is a junk. Will i have any issues accessing this partition from windows??
Thanks for your reply

merlinus
June 23rd, 2009, 06:46 AM
Only if formatted as ntfs, and although linux can read and write to it, you cannot use it for /home. You can, however, install Ext2 IFS which will allow windows to read and write to ext2 and ext3 partiitions.

BTW, although a bit tricky since it seems as though you have an extended partition on sdb, you might be able to shrink / and add the space to /home.

gallaharsha
June 23rd, 2009, 07:00 AM
The sdb5 is on the other hard disk so how to I change the mount point to /home which is on the other hard disk..??