10.2 64 Bit Disk Space Warning - Grub, Dual Boot, 2 Drives

Looking for a little help cleaning up a: clean install of SUSE 10.2 64 bit

With the help of MattB (and connection) all updates are loaded.
FIX was going into Firewall settings > Allowed Services > adding HTTP, IPP for DSL recognition

I am running 2 drives on a HP desktop

Seagate for windows "C"
Western Digital for 10.2
AMD 3500+ 1.77Ghz 960MB
GRUB dual boot running KDE

Spent many hours with a clean install (10.2 is on WD) - up from 9.2 32 bit, ran for a year

On 9.2 never had this message.

What is the best (most effective) change without damaging my setup - this goes beyond my knowledge base??

Thanks,
JCB

looking at it, it appears windows side is running out of space. depending on your version of windows ( you didn't say ) do a disk cleanup & that should give you some free space. or, using gparted ( a bit like partition magic ) you could change partition sizes to give windows a bit more

andy

On 9.2 never had this message. ... snipped ... What is the best (most effective) change without damaging my setup - this goes beyond my knowledge base??[/b]

I assume you are joking? :blink: That is just a warning that your windows partition does not have much space left. :lol:

You could either:
a. delete MS-Windows , or
b. do nothing and never use MS-Windows except for rare emergencies/hardware checks, or
c. you could download the GParted (or Parted Magic) Live CD iso, burn it to a bootable CD, boot to the live CD, and use it to take 1 GByte or so from your / or /home partition and give it to MS-Windows. :huh:

If you do decide to carve up your partitions (to give space back to MS-Windows), backup everything so that if things go wrong, you can re-install everything, if need be. This means keep copies of /etc/fstab, /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and of any configuration setup that gave you problems when first setting up your 10.2.

URLs for GParted and Parted Magic:

GParted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Parted Magic: http://partedmagic.com/

Edit - Beaten to the punch by Andy!

using gparted ( a bit like partition magic ) you could change partition sizes to give windows a bit more

andy
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Hi Andy,

Thanks for the help I am using XP

The drive is labeled D partitioned off C as a recovery drive.

How dangerous is using gparted?

JCB

c. you could download the GParted (or Parted Magic) Live CD iso, burn it to a bootable CD, boot to the live CD, and use it to take 1 GByte or so from your / or /home partition and give it to MS-Windows. :huh:

If you do decide to carve up your partitions (to give space back to MS-Windows), backup everything so that if things go wrong, you can re-install everything, if need be. This means keep copies of /etc/fstab, /etc/X11/xorg.conf, and of any configuration setup that gave you problems when first setting up your 10.2.

URLs for GParted and Parted Magic:

GParted: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Parted Magic: http://partedmagic.com/

Edit - Beaten to the punch by Andy!
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Hi OldCPU,

Thanks for the reply,

How dangerous is using GParted to my system.

I went to their web site - it looks like I could move 10GB to the recovery drive and free up the problem??

JCB

How dangerous is using GParted to my system.[/b]

There is always an element of risk in partitioning, hence the need for backups. Please do a backup first.

But assuming there is nothing unusual in your system, it should work. Typically in these sorts of things, the more experience one has doing this, the easier it becomes to do.

yes thast is true (i;ve done it a thousand times with hundred of different tools) but even now i still sit there for a mo before i hit the ok button and think to myself "is this how i want it? did i remember to backup everything and is it on dvd? did i check the dvd/s are good?" and a thousand other questions. all of them have to be answered and all of them have to be answered yes. one no and you can hit the cancel button and try again later once that no becomes a yes

not sure if that makes sense now but hopefully you'll get the point