I have started using a machine that has both Debian and Windows 7 installed. However, after installing some programs I started getting a message that there is not enough space. I knew that the system had more than 1TB of hard disk space in total and did some research. It seems that the root partition is only 5GB.
How can I resize partitions from the command line? I’ve heard of GParted, but I don’t want to use a GUI program.
I wiped the disk using
I installed Debian Jessie with default partitioning on my SSD drive. My current disk partitioning looks like this:
So recently a Debian 5.0.5 installer offered me to have separate /usr, /home, /var and /tmp partitions (on one physical disk).
I am upgrading the internal SATA hard drive on my laptop from a 40G drive to a 160G drive. I have a Linux/Ubuntu desktop which has a SATA card. I would actually like to do the same thing for a couple CentOS & FreeBSD boxes at work, and it seems this would have the same solution.
I need to create filesystem with just one partition from nothing (/dev/zero).
I tried this sequence of commands:
I want to format my USB stick to ext4 and just use as I would any other typical non-linux format drive (FAT32, exFAT, NTFS).
I have a failing hard drive that is unable to write or read the first sectors of the disk. It just gives I/O errors and that is all there is. There are other areas on the disk that seem (mostly) fine.
I am trying to mount a partition (ext4) and see if I can access some files I would like to recover. Since the mount command supports an offset option, I should be able to mount the filesystem even though the partition table is unreadable and unwriteable. The problem is how to find the offset. None of the ext4 tools seems to have this particular feature.
I am installing an SSD and would like to put / on the SSD and /home, /var, and /tmp on the HDD. My current distro is Kubuntu but I would not mind trying another distro if this procedure can be accomplished easier there. I have installed many different Linux OSes on multiple partitions, however I know of no installer that lets one mount multiple directories on a single partition. I would rather not use three separate partitions as particularly /home, /var, and /tmp are prone to large changes in size and it is not practical to allot each of them some arbitrary maximum.