On 2 January 2014 17:58, Anthony Harrington <untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk> wrote: > Aside from the suggestions already mentioned, there will be a few other > tweaks you can do on either partitions. For the linux one, you might like to > know that 5% of the filesystem is put to the side incase root needs a little > extra space when the disk drive is marked as 'full', so you can still carry > out functions. On a 1TB HDD we're talking a LOT of space being reserved for > this (50GB!) and it makes sense to reduce the amount or even take it away > completely. > > Quote: Reserved space is least useful on large filesystems with static > content that are not critical to the basic functionality of the operating > system. In such cases it is quite reasonable to reduce the reservation to > zero. Filesystems that may be better left with the default 5% include those > containing the directories /, /root, /var, /tmp, and (preferably) /home. > > For example, i've left mine at 0.1% for now. > > You need only find where the linux partition is by using sudo fdisk -l and > looking for which /dev/ is marked as "Linux" (probably under "extended") > e.g. mine looks like: > > /dev/sda1 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT > /dev/sda2 Extended > /dev/sda5 Linux > /dev/sda6 Linux swap / Solaris > > then you do sudo tune2fs -m 0.1 /dev/sda5 changing that 0.1 to the > percentage desired. Have a look in 'system monitor' before and after to > watch the available space go up!
Actually, that reminds me. Turning off System Restore completely from within Windows will also get you a lot of space back. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
