On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 4:13 PM Felix Miata <mrma...@earthlink.net> wrote:
> William Torrez Corea composed on 2022-10-19 15:51 (UTC-0600): > > > Jude DaShiell wrote: > > >> This is likely inaccurate information. > >> What output returns when you run: > >> lsblk /dev/sda? > >> First requirement for a new partition is available space. > > > I have the following output: > > > NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT > > sda 8:0 0 931.5G 0 disk > > ├─sda1 8:1 0 922.7G 0 part / > > └─sda2 8:2 0 8.8G 0 part [SWAP] > > > > I have 770.83 GB free memory > > That's not the important amount free. The command should have been: > > lsblk -f /dev/sda > > or in addition, > > df / > > What you described in your OP is a typical symptom of lack of adequate > freespace > on the / filesystem, not a problem having to do with partitioning. You may > be in > need of running > > apt autoremove > > and/or > > apt clean > > to free the / filesystem of unneeded and obsolete files. > -- > Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, > based on faith, not based on science. > > Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! > > Felix Miata > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 908G 90G 772G 11% / NAME FSTYPE FSVER LABEL UUID FSAVAIL FSUSE% MOUNTPOINT sda ├─sda1 │ ext4 1.0 3c44736e-ad10-4049-ad2d-b59662b923cb 771.3G 10% / └─sda2 swap 1 eae7aff2-a9ff-4fd9-8c14-596ee93282d4 [SWAP] -- With kindest regards, William. ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀