Hi,
i 've an hp laptop with 2 120gb hdds. On hd1 there used to be vista plus the hp recovery partition and hd2 was for storage.
When i moved to opensuse 11.1 as the primary OS some 3 years ago, i set it on hd2, with / , /home and swap partitions and left hd1 as is.
So current configuration is
hd1
sda1 windows 100gb
sda2 recover 5 gb
I have two questions.
first / seems to be out of space (i tried to install a gcc compiler and i got a warning). Is there anything i can do? Can i resize it on a live system? Can i delete/compress something on it safely?
Second: i currently use windows only for a tv card and a couple of old games so no need for 100 gb on this partition.
Is it safe to repartition it? Partitioner says i should not partition on a live system but it appears not to be mounted?
File System:
File System: NTFS
Mount Point:
Label: OS
If i resize it to, say, 40 gb and try to partition the rest, how should i mount it? I get the options /local, tmp and srv. Can i mount it somehow to use it for example for music or downloads storage?
Hi,
i 've an hp laptop with 2 120gb hdds. On hd1 there used to be vista plus the hp recovery partition and hd2 was for storage.
When i moved to opensuse 11.1 as the primary OS some 3 years ago, i set it on hd2, with / , /home and swap partitions and left hd1 as is.
So current configuration is
hd1
sda1 windows 100gb
sda2 recover 5 gb
I have two questions.
**first / seems to be out of space (i tried to install a gcc compiler and i got a warning). Is there anything i can do? Can i resize it on a live system? Can i delete/compress something on it safely?
**
Second: i currently use windows only for a tv card and a couple of old games so no need for 100 gb on this partition. Is it safe to repartition it? Partitioner says i should not partition on a live system but it appears not to be mounted?
File System:
File System: NTFS
Mount Point:
Label: OS
If i resize it to, say, 40 gb and try to partition the rest, how should i mount it? I get the options /local, tmp and srv. Can i mount it somehow to use it for example for music or downloads storage?
Thanks in advance!
That looks like (at least) three questions to me. lol!
Your choices are to uninstall something and make sure the tmp folder is empty. Otherwise, you got to rezise and that means making /home smaller or moving it. For the tmp folder do:
Open /etc/sysconfig/cron as root and search for a line saying
CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP="no"
…and edit “no” to “yes”. This could also be done via GUI: YaST → “Editor for /etc/sysconfig”.
Goto: System / Cron / CLEAR_TMP_DIRS_AT_BOOTUP
If you want to keep Windows, you would not repartition it. You would shrink its partition. Uninstall anything you don’t need. Clear out all temporary folders. Run defragment on it and then try to shrink it.
If you do shrink Windows, consider its purpose. If to be used by openSUSE & Windows, make it NTFS, else make it EXT4. Use the YaST Partitioner to mount it, which will place a mount command in your fstab file.
waw! that little thing of clear_tmp sent disk usage from 25 to 9 gb. What was that was cleared? i 'd thought i 'd already cleared the /tmp folder.
as to the other two questions. Sorry for the wrong word usage. of course i have shrinked down win usage from 105 to under 40 gb, and set partitioner to resize it to some 45 gb. Then i want to partition the 60 gbs left. No need to be used by win, just suse as extra storage (or possibly an extra small ubuntu partition) so that’s EXT4. Still, in yast partitioner i am given the options /local, tmp and srv. Which should i use? or should i do something else
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>Hi,
>i 've an hp laptop with 2 120gb hdds. On hd1 there used to be vista
>plus the hp recovery partition and hd2 was for storage.
>When i moved to opensuse 11.1 as the primary OS some 3 years ago, i set
>it on hd2, with / , /home and swap partitions and left hd1 as is.
>So current configuration is
>hd1
>sda1 windows 100gb
>sda2 recover 5 gb
>
>hd2
>sdb1 swap
>sdb2 / ext4 25 gb
>sdb3 /home ext3 80gb
>
>I have two questions.
>first / seems to be out of space (i tried to install a gcc compiler and
>i got a warning). Is there anything i can do? Can i resize it on a live
>system? Can i delete/compress something on it safely?
>
>Second: i currently use windows only for a tv card and a couple of old
>games so no need for 100 gb on this partition.
>Is it safe to repartition it? Partitioner says i should not partition
>on a live system but it appears not to be mounted?
>File System:
>File System: NTFS
>Mount Point:
>Label: OS
>
>If i resize it to, say, 40 gb and try to partition the rest, how should
>i mount it? I get the options /local, tmp and srv. Can i mount it
>somehow to use it for example for music or downloads storage?
>
>Thanks in advance!
I must say, the very idea of repartitioning a disk while is running the
computer is very unsafe. Let alone doing it.
Get yourself a PartedMagic CD and use that to resize your partitions.
Vastly safer. It can take a while though even with partitions that size.
And don’t forget to defrag the DOS/NTFS partition first.