Root partition is full. No unallocated space. Home partition almost empty. Resize? [duplicate]
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so when I installed Ubuntu I followed a tutorial that suggested allocating 10-20gb for the / partition so I did. Well I ran out of that space on the first day and I've been struggling a LOT with getting these damn nvidia drivers/cuda drivers to work properly so I don't want to reinstall... So my question is, is it possible, and if so how, to shrink (or delete it completely and just create a new one?) my 200gb /home partition and then allocate about half of that to the root partition? I have 20gb swap, 20gb for root and 200gb for home and that's the whole disk.
I was able to downsize home...
but I can't increase the size of root.
partitioning gparted resize
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so when I installed Ubuntu I followed a tutorial that suggested allocating 10-20gb for the / partition so I did. Well I ran out of that space on the first day and I've been struggling a LOT with getting these damn nvidia drivers/cuda drivers to work properly so I don't want to reinstall... So my question is, is it possible, and if so how, to shrink (or delete it completely and just create a new one?) my 200gb /home partition and then allocate about half of that to the root partition? I have 20gb swap, 20gb for root and 200gb for home and that's the whole disk.
I was able to downsize home...
but I can't increase the size of root.
partitioning gparted resize
edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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marked as duplicate by karel, Yaron, user68186, David Foerster, Eric Carvalho Feb 7 at 23:42
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Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
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You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24
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so when I installed Ubuntu I followed a tutorial that suggested allocating 10-20gb for the / partition so I did. Well I ran out of that space on the first day and I've been struggling a LOT with getting these damn nvidia drivers/cuda drivers to work properly so I don't want to reinstall... So my question is, is it possible, and if so how, to shrink (or delete it completely and just create a new one?) my 200gb /home partition and then allocate about half of that to the root partition? I have 20gb swap, 20gb for root and 200gb for home and that's the whole disk.
I was able to downsize home...
but I can't increase the size of root.
partitioning gparted resize
edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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This question already has an answer here:
How to resize partitions?
4 answers
so when I installed Ubuntu I followed a tutorial that suggested allocating 10-20gb for the / partition so I did. Well I ran out of that space on the first day and I've been struggling a LOT with getting these damn nvidia drivers/cuda drivers to work properly so I don't want to reinstall... So my question is, is it possible, and if so how, to shrink (or delete it completely and just create a new one?) my 200gb /home partition and then allocate about half of that to the root partition? I have 20gb swap, 20gb for root and 200gb for home and that's the whole disk.
I was able to downsize home...
but I can't increase the size of root.
This question already has an answer here:
How to resize partitions?
4 answers
partitioning gparted resize
partitioning gparted resize
edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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edited Feb 7 at 12:23
karel
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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asked Feb 7 at 11:46
Joel Andersson
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marked as duplicate by karel, Yaron, user68186, David Foerster, Eric Carvalho Feb 7 at 23:42
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marked as duplicate by karel, Yaron, user68186, David Foerster, Eric Carvalho Feb 7 at 23:42
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Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
1
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24
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Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
1
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24
Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
1
1
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24
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Partitions can be resized by common partition editors (GParted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.), but this can only be done when the partition is unmounted. You effectively can't unmount your / and /home partitions when Ubuntu is running -- so you have a dilemma.
The solution is to boot from Live media (like the USB or DVD you originally installed from), and use the partition editor in the Live media to do exactly what you suggest -- shrink the /home partition on the left, then expand the / partition to use the freed space. Since shrinking on the left will require moving data, expect the operation to take some time -- possibly an hour or more, depending on the amount of data present -- but once that's done, expanding / should take only a few minutes.
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
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Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
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You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
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You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
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up vote
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down vote
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You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
3,0681724
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
3,0681724
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
3,0681724
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
3,0681724
answered Feb 7 at 12:56
Soren A
3,0681724
3,0681724
add a comment |Â
add a comment |Â
up vote
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Partitions can be resized by common partition editors (GParted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.), but this can only be done when the partition is unmounted. You effectively can't unmount your / and /home partitions when Ubuntu is running -- so you have a dilemma.
The solution is to boot from Live media (like the USB or DVD you originally installed from), and use the partition editor in the Live media to do exactly what you suggest -- shrink the /home partition on the left, then expand the / partition to use the freed space. Since shrinking on the left will require moving data, expect the operation to take some time -- possibly an hour or more, depending on the amount of data present -- but once that's done, expanding / should take only a few minutes.
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
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Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
add a comment |Â
up vote
-1
down vote
Partitions can be resized by common partition editors (GParted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.), but this can only be done when the partition is unmounted. You effectively can't unmount your / and /home partitions when Ubuntu is running -- so you have a dilemma.
The solution is to boot from Live media (like the USB or DVD you originally installed from), and use the partition editor in the Live media to do exactly what you suggest -- shrink the /home partition on the left, then expand the / partition to use the freed space. Since shrinking on the left will require moving data, expect the operation to take some time -- possibly an hour or more, depending on the amount of data present -- but once that's done, expanding / should take only a few minutes.
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
1
Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
add a comment |Â
up vote
-1
down vote
up vote
-1
down vote
Partitions can be resized by common partition editors (GParted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.), but this can only be done when the partition is unmounted. You effectively can't unmount your / and /home partitions when Ubuntu is running -- so you have a dilemma.
The solution is to boot from Live media (like the USB or DVD you originally installed from), and use the partition editor in the Live media to do exactly what you suggest -- shrink the /home partition on the left, then expand the / partition to use the freed space. Since shrinking on the left will require moving data, expect the operation to take some time -- possibly an hour or more, depending on the amount of data present -- but once that's done, expanding / should take only a few minutes.
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
Partitions can be resized by common partition editors (GParted, KDE Partition Manager, etc.), but this can only be done when the partition is unmounted. You effectively can't unmount your / and /home partitions when Ubuntu is running -- so you have a dilemma.
The solution is to boot from Live media (like the USB or DVD you originally installed from), and use the partition editor in the Live media to do exactly what you suggest -- shrink the /home partition on the left, then expand the / partition to use the freed space. Since shrinking on the left will require moving data, expect the operation to take some time -- possibly an hour or more, depending on the amount of data present -- but once that's done, expanding / should take only a few minutes.
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
answered Feb 7 at 12:28
Zeiss Ikon
3,0531721
3,0531721
1
Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
add a comment |Â
1
Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
1
1
Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
Downvoter, please explain how this answer is inferior to the accepted one-liner?
– Zeiss Ikon
Feb 7 at 13:03
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
I'm not downvoter (I'm actually the maintainer of KDE Partition Manager), but it is not true that you can only resize when partition is unmounted. You can resize mounted partitions too. Btrfs can be both grown and shrunk. Although, ext4 can only be grown.
– Andrius Å tikonas
Feb 8 at 17:54
add a comment |Â
Never be afraid to reinstall. Keep good notes and good backups.
– user535733
Feb 7 at 11:50
@karel, that sort of worked. I did this and resized the homr partition to half the size. But I can't seem to increase the size of the root partition 🤔
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:17
Yes I am currently booted from a live USB.
– Joel Andersson
Feb 7 at 12:19
1
You will have to move the home partition to the back end of the free space - to the right. Then you can expand root into the now free space.
– Soren A
Feb 7 at 12:24