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Why is root partition so small? what's the best way to make it larger, say 25GB?

vinoman wrote:Why is root partition so small? what's the best way to make it larger, say 25GB?

How large is your drive and what and how large are your current partitions?

Ken-Bergen wrote:

vinoman wrote:Why is root partition so small? what's the best way to make it larger, say 25GB?

How large is your drive and what and how large are your current partitions?

I have a 250GB hdd. I usually don't have any partitions except /home.

Your system will not run without a / partition and that's what your question was about so please post the output of

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df

[davek@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12G 3.2G 8.1G 29% /
/dev/sda6 214G 476M 214G 1% /home
[davek@localhost ~]$

vinoman wrote:[davek@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12G 3.2G 8.1G 29% /
/dev/sda6 214G 476M 214G 1% /home
[davek@localhost ~]$

You have 8.1GB free on / which will only change as you install more programs.
Linux programs are lean so even once you've installed everything that you what to try out I doubt you'll run out of space.

If you do run low there are ways to increase / but until then I wouldn't worry.

Ken-Bergen wrote:

vinoman wrote:[davek@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 12G 3.2G 8.1G 29% /
/dev/sda6 214G 476M 214G 1% /home
[davek@localhost ~]$

You have 8.1GB free on / which will only change as you install more programs.
Linux programs are lean so even once you've installed everything that you what to try out I doubt you'll run out of space.

If you do run low there are ways to increase / but until then I wouldn't worry.

Thank you.