First let me apologize if this question has already been answered elsewhere. I did try to search for it on the forums but I didn't find exactly what I needed.
I have a Dell i5 with 8 GB RAM and 1 TB HDD. I installed Mageia 4 on this machine and then have since upgraded to Mageia 5. It is a single-boot machine only running Mageia 5 (I'm all in! ). Recently, I noticed that I started to get some errors that prevented me from updating some packages. The error I got was something along the lines of:
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Transaction Check Error:
installing package XXXX needs #MB on the / filesystem
Error Summary
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Disk Requirements:
At least #MB more space needed on the / filesystem.
I had a look at my partitions to see what space I had and found that the / partition was 99% full. After uninstalling some packages got the following:
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[bradfonseca@localhost ~]$ df -H /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 13G 11G 1.4G 90% /
and:
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[bradfonseca@localhost ~]$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /dev
tmpfs 4.2G 157M 4.0G 4% /dev/shm
tmpfs 4.2G 877k 4.2G 1% /run
/dev/sda1 13G 11G 1.4G 90% /
tmpfs 4.2G 0 4.2G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 4.2G 111k 4.2G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 968G 107G 862G 11% /home
tmpfs 828M 13k 828M 1% /run/user/500
Basically, I have 13 GB partition for root, which is possibly smaller than what I have on my Android smartphone! I realize that this was an issue created by the Mageia 4 install ("Mageia 4 and earlier used to assign up to 12 GB to the root partition, which could be confusing for some end users (as 12 GB can be quickly filled after you've installed some games or several desktop environments).").
My problem now is I would like to resize the / partition, ideally without having to do a fresh install and having to completely reinstall everything. Is this possible? I've created a Mageia 5 Install USB but haven't checked to see if there are any utilities that will let me do this. Also, what would you suggest would be a "big enough" partition for root? 50 GB? 100 GB? I have 1 TB so I have space.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Brad