[SOLVED] Why is root partition so small?

[vinoman]

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

[Ken-Bergen]

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?

[vinoman]

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.

[Ken-Bergen]

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

[vinoman]

[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 ~]$

[Ken-Bergen]

[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.

[vinoman]

[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.