boot with a live cd of Ubuntu and use the partition manager to move more space to your root partition.
system ->administration -> partition manger Make sure you back up your data before doing this. As long as you do not delete any partition you should be ok and not get any errors I have been using this method over the last few days to get more space in my /home and it worked really well On 8/8/09, Mallikarjun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:48 PM, ranjan das gupta > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> hi.i use ubuntu 8.10..i have very less space left on my root drive(200 mb >> appox) but i have lot of space on my other media drive eg. hda6 (more than >> 2 >> gb) but when i am downloading a file from net and storing it in my >> hda6....the space 200 mb is getting deducted and though all drives are >> mounting properly /media free space is not being considered(it is >> ntfs).After arnd 200mb of download it is givin 0 mb left and says it >> cannot >> download as no space is left.Though files aere gettting saved in >> /media/hda6 >> i am not able to download more >> than 200 mb.Why?????Any solution???? >> > It depends on the way you download, say if you download using browser it > will take /tmp to temp storage. If you use Transmission it will download > directly where you want say /media/hda6 in your case > > You can use dd command to transfer entire file system to another file > system with more space, but don't forget to update the grub, I cannot assure > this method for sure. > > >> -- >> ubuntu-in mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >> >> > -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
