What is happening is that i need to make my file system thing for linux bigger, but it wont let me, because it is on ‘swap’ not sure what that is. it says i need to un mount which i also don’t know is, or how to do. please help >:(
Do you mind giving us information about your setup? Like:
fdisk -l
and
cat /etc/fstab
and
df
and telling something about your openSUSE level, etc.
What do I need to type in those coded, and paste you the out put?
admin@dhcppc0:~> fdisk -l
Absolute path to ‘fdisk’ is ‘/sbin/fdisk’, so running it may require superuser privileges (eg. root).
admin@dhcppc0:~>
admin@dhcppc0:~> cat /etc/fstab
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS728080PLAT20_PFD202S4R07WKJ-part1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS728080PLAT20_PFD202S4R07WKJ-part2 / ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-HDS728080PLAT20_PFD202S4R07WKJ-part3 /home ext4 acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD2500AAJS-08VWA0_WD-WCARY1356844-part1 /windows/C ntfs-3g users,gid=users,fmask=133,dmask=022,locale=en_GB.UTF-8 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
debugfs /sys/kernel/debug debugfs noauto 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
admin@dhcppc0:~>
admin@dhcppc0:~> df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 20641788 5221900 14371248 27% /
udev 1027604 468 1027136 1% /dev
/dev/sdb3 56435196 51450840 2117560 97% /home
/dev/sda1 244187968 79627496 164560472 33% /windows/C
admin@dhcppc0:~>
Sorry, but the fdisk must be run as root, so do
sudo fdisk -l
and type the root password when asked for (nothing will be shown when you type).
And when you put the output between CODE tags it is better readable for everybody (select the text and click on the # above).
In any case your /home is 97% full. It being more then 50 GB, is it correct that you filled that up with usefull data? That is qiute possible of course, a few movies and there you go. But there could be things that you can remove.
The partition …-part1 is for Swap. That is an extension of your memory. How much memory do you have in the ystem? At the moment we do not have your fdisk -l output, so we can not tell how big Swap it is, but it is probably not more then a few GB. Not enough for helping you out.
If you have an existing Linux install and you’re running out of hard drive room, you can use a program called Bleachbit to clean out temp files and such to make room.
http://software.opensuse.org/ymp/openSUSE:Factory:Contrib/openSUSE_11.2/bleachbit.ymp