Is there for some reason a purpose to limit the root partition to 20Gb. With the large hard drives of today this is ridiculous. I tried all the options and the installer won’t allow a root partition larger than 20GB. I read one old thread that 20GB was large enough. Obviously not as I have twice been notified root was out of space. I even tried partioning with Parted Magic but the installer insists on doing the partition to 20GB. Is there a work around to this?
No. AFAIK you can have any size root. In general 20 gig is more then enough. But if you want more you may first have to change the proposed size of home to allow the room.
My root file system seems to be 30G, though I am only using 8G of that.
I don’t think there’s a 20G limit. But maybe there is something about the structure of your disk and about your current partitioning.
If you partition with Parted Magic, then you should be able to go to the advanced option on the installer screen, and just specify directly which partition is for what.
How much disk space (in root /) you need depends on how many applications that you are loading or, as in my case, how many kernel versions do you have installed. My root / partition is using 25.5 GB on a 120 GB SSD, but your requirements may vary. You should be able to make it any size you have room to do so. If you can’t get above 20 GB, sounds like the partition is surrounded by other partitions and the free space is not next to it, meaning you would need to move partitions around or perhaps its is just time to repartition and reinstall openSUSE?
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On 2012-04-29 17:26, wye4 wrote:
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> Is there for some reason a purpose to limit the root partition to 20Gb.
There is no such limit.
If you are hitting a size limit it will be because you have no space
available in your hard disk - notice “available” can mean different things.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
The main reasons why 20Gb is not enough are if you don’t clear out your /tmp folde regularly or you have a lot of mysql databases in /var. I curently have 6.9GiB in the root partition and that is the highest in twelve years.
On 2012-04-29 23:06, john hudson wrote:
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> The main reasons why 20Gb is not enough are if you don’t clear out your
> /tmp folde regularly or you have a lot of mysql databases in /var. I
> curently have 6.9GiB in the root partition and that is the highest in
> twelve years.
I have way more than 20 GB - and non in temp. Or I would, had I not
distributed over several partitions.
(I use 134 GiB on root - so it says, but I know it lies)
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
It is was a new 250GB WD hard drive. The partition tool wouldn’t allow more than 20GB root. I had retired the old 160GB hard drive that I got the messages about root running out of room. I rebuild old computers for the Job and Family Services. The child welfare office there distributes the computers to needy kids. So I nstall KDE,Gnome, XFCE, and LXDE, My computer is loaded with software for the Child Welfare to try out and choose from. The educattion packages are a must have. So this system is extremely bloated because of that. The root partition on the refurbished computers never gets over 10GB.
linux-4qup:/home/wye4 # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total 488281250 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00032bdf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 41945087 20971520 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 41945088 484086017 221070465 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 484086018 488281249 2097616 82 Linux swap / Solaris
Disk /dev/sdc: 500.1 GB, 500107861504 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773167 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00074679
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdc1 * 2048 718847 358400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdc2 718848 976771071 488026112 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xf2b72abf
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sdb2 206848 312578047 156185600 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
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On 2012-05-01 10:36, wye4 wrote:
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> It is was a new 250GB WD hard drive. The partition tool wouldn’t allow
> more than 20GB root.
Well, you can certainly create a root partition of any size you choose. I
have never seen a message like that you say. Obviously, you can not enlarge
a partition if there is another partition that blocks expansion.
Notice that in the output you show there are other two windows disks. Were
you using a windows based partitioned? You have not said what exact Linux
version you use.
By the way, next time you post computer output, please use code tags.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
My root partition has always been 20Gb for as long as I can remember. The system I am using now is the first system with a bigger root partition but that’s because the 60Gb SSD I bought was the smallest they had so I just gave it all to root. right now I have 44Gb free. I am thinking about throwing some VM’s on there.