Unable to increase My storage (as user)

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Hi,
I’d like to increase My storage (as user) in home/My_name because in the home folder there are 840 Gb available and in My_name only 46 Gb are available.

Thanks,
Fabio

openSuse 11.4 x86_64

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This makes not sense to me
Show us your partitions with

su -
fdisk -l

which partition is /home

what do this show

df
3

Sorry you have reason,

I need to resize the root partition on my OpenSuse 11.4.
I would like to add to the root partition (currently 20 Gb) and decrease the /home (currently 840 Gb).

Thanks,

Fabio

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On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:06:02 +0000, fabio g wrote:

> Sorry you have reason,
>
> I need to resize the root partition on my OpenSuse 11.4. I would like to
> add to the root partition (currently 20 Gb) and decrease the /home
> (currently 840 Gb).

Start by backing up your data to another storage device, then look at a
liveCD that has GNU parted on it to resize the partitions.

Though I do wonder what you’ve got installed that requires more space on
the root partition - 20 GB is generally a good size

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Post the info we requested please

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I’ve installed Code-Aster (Structural Analysis). It required in /tmp more than 40 Gb for some analysis. Yesterday I partially resolved the problem, I have modified the software
and now it allocates in /home/My_name/new_folder the temporary files.

My computer have 8 Gb of RAM and 2 Gb of SWAP. In some long analysis the SWAP
saturated. For resize the SWAP I have to make the same procedure described above?

Thanks,

Fabio

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On 07/02/2011 09:36 AM, fabio g wrote:
>
> I’ve installed Code-Aster (Structural Analysis). It required in /tmp
> more than 40 Gb for some analysis. Yesterday I partially resolved the
> problem, I have modified the software
> and now it allocates in /home/My_name/new_folder the temporary files.
>
> My computer have 8 Gb of RAM and 2 Gb of SWAP. In some long analysis
> the SWAP
> saturated. For resize the SWAP I have to make the same procedure
> described above?

Linux can handle multiple swap partitions and/or swap files. The easiest thing
to do would be to create a swap file on your partition with the largest free
space. There is a good article at
http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-add-a-swap-file-howto/.

Did you increase the amount of RAM since installation? I am wondering why so
little swap space. If you ever want to suspend to disk, the swap needs to be as
large as the compressed contents of RAW, which is usually estimated as 1/2.

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No, I don’t have partitioned manually during installation.
Do you think that 20 Gb of swap are right?

Thanks,

Fabio

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On 07/02/2011 05:36 PM, fabio g wrote:
>
> No, I don’t have partitioned manually during installation.
> Do you think that 20 Gb of swap are right?

That depends on your application. What is the maximum amount of RAM that it will
take? You should have 1 or 2 GB of swap more than that.

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Before start the analysis I can set the amount of RAM that the software will uses,
there’s not a limit. For My analysis a good size is 4-6 GB.

Very Thanks!

Fabio