upgrading to 11.04 but out of space

[chris_linux]

I created a new partition that is 40 gigs and have it auto mounted under my home directory. When I try to upgrade to 11.04 of ubuntu it says I don't have enough space in /. Is there a way to get / to use some of the space in the partition I created. The partition is in /home/chris/disk3.

Thanks,
Chris

[BC59]

Please open a terminal CTRL+ALT+T type and post the result



sudo fdisk -l

[BC59]

And this as well:


sudo parted /dev/sda print

[chris_linux]

Below is the output from those two commands.

chris@chris-Vostro-1500:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for chris:

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: 0xbedffd6f

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 38876 43336 35832982+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 43337 45248 15358140 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 50604 53152 20474842+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 45249 50603 43014037+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA)

Partition table entries are not in disk order
chris@chris-Vostro-1500:~$ sudo parted /dev/sda print
Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 320GB 356GB 36.7GB primary ext4 boot
2 356GB 372GB 15.7GB primary linux-swap(v1)
4 372GB 416GB 44.0GB primary fat32 lba
3 416GB 437GB 21.0GB primary ntfs

chris@chris-Vostro-1500:~$

sda4 is the newest partition I created that has the free space. BTW: I'm using a bootmanager from terabyte that separates my Windows partition from linux.

Thanks for your help,
Chris

[chris_linux]

I had some free space near the linux partition so I increased the size of SDA1 to 70+ gigs. Now I need to run resize2fs but it doesn't look like it'll let me since its the boot partition. Is there a way to resize it or do I need to use a live boot cd to do it. Or would resize_reiserfs do it without the live cd.

Thanks,
Chris

[BC59]

I had some free space near the linux partition so I increased the size of SDA1 to 70+ gigs. Now I need to run resize2fs but it doesn't look like it'll let me since its the boot partition. Is there a way to resize it or do I need to use a live boot cd to do it. Or would resize_reiserfs do it without the live cd.

Thanks,
Chris

The only way to do changes to partitions is when they are unmounted. So you have to boot from Live CD and use Gparted.

When you work with partitions first do a backup.

To use a Linux system you need basically 2 partitions
the / and one swap.
I don't see a / on your partitions and the swap I see is huge.

The rule of thumb says the swap has to be something like the double of your RAM. Means if you have 6G RAM you need about 12G of swap.

Now the most common partition for a Linux installation should be like:
7-8G for the / (the system)
8-12G for swap (depends on your RAM)
and the rest for /home

You don't need to assign a special partition for /boot, /tmp etc because there are for special purposes.

Now, to resize a partition there are two ways, one going towards left and the other going towards right. Going towards right is always much easier.

To understand this put your partitions to a line so we have

sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4.

To expand a partition you need free "unallocated" space.
So sda1 can only be expanded to the right and needs free space from sda2. Means you can delete swap (it's empty) and expand sda1 to the right. Then you can assign the rest of the unallocated space as sda2 swap.