FS#14556 - / partition to small

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Carsten Niehaus (lumbar) - Saturday, 02 May 2009, 10:45 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 02 May 2009, 18:24 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category System
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

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Description: I installed ArchLinux like described in the wiki and came up with 7.3G for the / partition. Now I am runnning out of space and see no way to resize /. I have 95G free on /home and could easily give / 10 or 20 more gigabyte. GParted cannot resize the / partitition though.

I think that / should get more space allocated by default.

carsten ~ $ LANG=C df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 7.3G 7.0G 0 100% /
none 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda1 38M 9.1M 27M 26% /boot
/dev/sda4 139G 38G 95G 29% /home
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Saturday, 02 May 2009, 18:24 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Saturday, 02 May 2009, 16:37 GMT
The 7500M is only a static example when doing the partitioning. It should be enough for average systems, but some systems will need more space. As you're the one installing your system, you will have to make that choice.
If we make it 20GB by default, we'll get bugs that it doesn't fit on 10GB disks, or that we need even more space than 20GB.
Comment by Carsten Niehaus (lumbar) - Saturday, 02 May 2009, 17:38 GMT
While I certainly agree that is was my decision to use 7500 mb I think (now) that it is too small. I think my install is a regular one:

Gnome
KDE4.2
OpenOffice.org
cups
Firefox/GIMP/Inkscape/Amarok2

No server software or anything like that. As I am running out of memory it seems the "static example" should be adjusted or commented. In fact, to be able to write this (eg to start GNOME or KDE), I needed to remove OpenOffice as I could no longer log into KDE.
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Saturday, 02 May 2009, 18:24 GMT
clear up /var/cache/pacman/pkg and don't blaim us for not having control over your system.

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