Root File System Maxed Out
Patrick Bartek
bartek047 at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 22 03:48:41 UTC 2010
On Tue, 9/21/10, earlscott3 at comcast.net <earlscott3 at comcast.net> wrote:
> I am a new user to Fedora.
>
> I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates
> stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download
> it.
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free
> space without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition
> and still have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a
> different partition?
Not necessarily, but sometimes what appears to be a folder on one partition is really a partition on another drive. For example, I have a 2 drive set up: The first drive is the / partition containing all the system directories (folders) including /home; but /home is not a true directory (folder) but the "mount point" for a partition on the second drive which is the actual "home". In this case, the /home folder is a partition. It isn't always.
To help with your problem, need to know how your drive is configured for Linux. Post the output of the following three commands.
df -h
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab
You might be able to use something like gparted to resize your partitions to get more space on your / partition.
Also, please only post plain ascii test here. Thanks.
B
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