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sameer7
December 20th, 2014, 07:43 PM
Hi,
I am getting a low disk space message
df command shows the following

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda10 6732784 6190344 177384 98% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
udev 1993732 4 1993728 1% /dev
tmpfs 400968 992 399976 1% /run
none 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
none 2004836 768 2004068 1% /run/shm
none 102400 80 102320 1% /run/user
/dev/sda8 6454632 14724 6088984 1% /media/sameer/d17ac334-0f4d-41ad-82a6-965f0f661d39
/dev/sda2 96093180 55769556 40323624 59% /media/sameer/6468BC1768BBE648

how can I increase the size of /dev/sda10
I am new to Ubuntu will appreciate if someone helps me get over it.
Thank you

deadflowr
December 20th, 2014, 07:53 PM
how can I increase the size of /dev/sda10

It depends on what the sizes and contents are of sda1 through sda9 are.
run this command to helps us see how the disk is setup, partition-wise.

sudo parted -l
(Please use code tags when posting command outputs, see here (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2171721&p=12776168#post12776168))

Also post what system you have installed, so we can best determine the next course of action, without undue stress.