Ubuntu :: Expansion Of /home Partition?
Apr 25, 2010
I am reaching the upper limit of my /home partition. As shown in the image attached, my /home is located in /sba3, and I have an additional partition for storage in /sba6. Since Lucid Lynx is about to be released, is it possible using the GPart software on the LiveCD to remove the /sba6 partition, add 1 GiB to my swap partition and the rest to /home without messing up all of my data in /home? So far in my search of the forum I have not come across anything exactly touching this subject, so I am requesting some guidance before proceeding. I have already back up all of my data for a full clean install if it comes to that.
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Jul 23, 2011
how do I write a workable script that demonstrates that variable expansion occurs before pathname expansion
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Jan 14, 2010
Trying to clean install 11.2 dual boot with Win xp already installed. How do I create a new home partition, don't want to preserve the existing home partition from a previous attempt. DVD installation and automatic config keeps saving the thing.
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Mar 28, 2011
recently i made a backup of my home directory in 10.10 before reinstalling 10.10. again.This time I chose to manually define the partitions (50GB Root, 25GB Swap, 325GB Home)Now i wish to migrate the old home into the newly installed home, which is on a separate partition.I have found the following documentation URL...Still, as a beginner I am not quite sure about the necessary steps to perform.As the new home is located on a separate partition is it possible to simple delete all directories there and copy all directories from old home to new home with rsync?
Do I have to install all the software that corresponds to the old home first followed by migrating home or first migrating home followed by installing the software such as thunderbird, Texlive2010 etc.Guess that migration should take place at a later stage. Otherwise my old profile files from firefox and thunderbird will be overwriten by new ones?
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Jul 1, 2011
Been digging around and not finding anything that quite works.
Background: I had an existing 10.10 install and 10.04 on another partition. When I installed the 10.04 I told it to use the existing /home partition which is also being used by the 10.10 install. All good, both users have directories with all their data in the same /home partition.
Issue: So, as the 10.04 was 32bit (experimenting but another story) I decided I would replace with 10.04 64bit. All went well except when I did the manual partitioning I screwed up and instead of setting the existing /home partition to 'use but don't format' - which I think is what I must have done last time - I left it as 'don't use and don't format'. So, obviously, now the new 10.04 install has its /home inside /, which I don't want. I want it on the existing /home partition as it was with the previous 10.04 install.
Question(s): Is there any simple(ish) way of doing this without a reinstall? Not a major problem as I have only just installed and can do it again without losing anything but time, but I would like to figure out a way to do it without if possible.I want to essentially move the /home/user directory (rather than the /home) and make it /media/home/user inside the existing partition. Seems easy enough on the surface but becomes involved as I investigate.Ubuntu 10.04 minimal install with Xfce DE.
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Sep 1, 2011
i have instaled ubuntu 11.04 wubi on my pc with windows 7. i installed and everything was going ok i navigate on ubuntu already. but the problems star here i went on my ubuntu to the partition section and i format my windows partion to be the home partion and changed the nfts to ext, i did the upgrades but i forgot that theyr running yet and i restart my computer when it boot again it gaves me an error:
try (0,0) : nfts5 : wubildr
try (0,1) : ext2 :
and the windows7 says that i have to instal again. so i went to another pc and i made a cd boot and a pen boot. i burned the iso (downloaded from the ubuntu oficial site the 11.04 32 bit version) image to the cd and pen drive prperly, i adjust my boot options to star from usb or cd rom and nothing im struck.
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May 11, 2011
I was wondering what the best way is to partition multiple distros to share one home partition.
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Feb 7, 2010
I have finally been convinced to partition my 500GB hard drive from a two partition setup with root and swap to a three partition setup with root, swap, and home. I found a nice tutorial about how to do this, but here is my question:
A) How much space do I leave for the root partition and the home partition?
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May 1, 2011
Installed Ubuntu along with Debian on my Notebook and use Grub Manager to choose between them on startup. Since i like Debian now a lot (in past days it was a very hard system to handle, but there has been some progress i noticed), i have to change some things (want Debian as main system now) For Ubuntu i have: (was meant to be main system on Notebook) "/", "/home" and a "swap" partition, but since i am now going to use mainly Debian, i wanted to store my files all in the "/home"-folder of my extended Ubuntu partition (has much more space available) not in the "/home" folder of the Debian system. So i want both (Debian and Ubuntu) to use the same extended partition ("/home") which i created for Ubuntu to save their files like downloads, videos, and so on.
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Dec 15, 2010
My debian 5 is up and running smoothly and act as file-server in the middle of windows network jungle using samba the only problem is, after backup an external hdd (213 GB) to my /home partition, I end up with message say that I'm running out free space. Fyi my debian installed on 1TB SATA disk, and I separate my /home partition from system what happen to my free space ? here is screenshot of my disk, using disk usage analyzer: is there is a way to get my space back or something missing on my setup.or I have to reinstall my debian and use LVM when partitioning my disk?
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Aug 24, 2010
I installed fedora 13 64 bit and it works great but I encountered several issues when setting up guest OS with KVM. The problem seems to be related to selinux. But let me first ask question about logical volume. By Default fedora created logical volumes:
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"If you expect that you or other users will store data on the system, create a separate partition for the /home directory within a volume group. With a separate /home partition, you may upgrade or reinstall Fedora without erasing user data files." seems to suggest I have to create a separate physical partition and assign that to /home. But reading elsewhere it seems to suggest logical volume acts like a partition. My goal is to make it easy in case fedora is hosed and I have to re-install it without affecting /home where my cirtical data resides. Given above do I need to create a separate physical partition or I am just fine?
I have a second hard disk that originally had windows and all my data. Windows is hosed but I can see my data from within Fedora and Windows is gone and I created created new partition in its place which used ot be the C:/ drive appears as 53 Gb filesystem. My data which was originally D drive appears as 215 GB filesystem. As given in [URL] I want to create a new logical volume in 53 Gb filesystem which I want to use as space for virtual disk to install guest OS's in KVM. Currrently 53 GB filesystem is mounted as /media/3467BH89JK789 but this does not work well with KVM. how do I create this logical volume out of 53 Gb filesystem partition and add proper selinux info and do I add to vg_vostrolx volume group and in a different volume group?
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Aug 18, 2011
KDE 4.6 - opensuse 11.4.
I have a separate ext4 partition which contains all my data (music, movies, etc). When I delete files from this partition it is very slow because it copies files from my data partition to the Trash folder in my home partition. How can I avoid this? Can't the trash be configured so that it uses a trash folder in each partition instead of copying files to another partition (which is slow).
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Dec 17, 2010
i installed fedora kde 32 bit and iam realy loving it. but i want to resize my home partition as i got a message there is no space in my home folder i downloaded a Disk utility application .... to try and resize .... but looks like i dont know what to do
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Feb 7, 2010
I was surprised not to find an existing thread on this anywhere, as I would expect this to be a common problem: I have the following partitions on my eee PC 100HE:
10GB Windows XP
5GB Linux Mint 8
5GB Ubuntu 9.10 NBR (awesome distro by the way!)
130GB Home partition shared by Linux Mint and Ubuntu NBR
2GB Swap partition shared by Linux Mint and Ubuntu NBR
I installed Ubuntu NBR after Mint. Immediately after install, the panel layout, menus and colour scheme were slightly messed up - presumeably because they had been "adopted" from the Mint settings in the home folder. I corrected them easily, but now I have the same problem in Mint. Is there any way I can get both distros to use the same /home folder, but different settings (i.e. the /home/username/. folders)? Can I get these settings folders put on a different partition for example?
And is this problem due only to the fact that these are 2 Ubuntu-based distros? Or will I have the same problem if/when I replace Mint with another distro, such as Fedora or Moblin?
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Jun 2, 2011
I am interested in a more flexible targeted search in my directories. For example, if I am searching for all .txt .dat and .bat files (then perform an operation), I would think that the following would work:
find . -name '*.{txt,dat,bat}' -exec ...
But I get no results. I am running on Cygwin.I have confirmed that:
find . -name '*.txt' -exec ...
find . -name '*.dat' -exec ...
find . -name '*.bat' -exec ...
all find the aforementioned files. But, find . -name '*.{txt}'still produces no output.
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Feb 21, 2011
In my .bashrc file, I am attempting to set JAVA_PATH to a local path, using the HOME environment variable or '~' symbol as shown in the following examples.Using ${HOME}
export JAVA_PATH='${HOME}/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24'
When I attempt to use ${JAVA_HOME} in a my ${PATH} javec is not found. To debug it, I tried a simple ls command:
ls ${JAVA_HOME}
and get the following error:
ls: ${HOME}/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24/: No such file or directory
Using '~': Trying to use '~' symbol as follows:
export JAVA_PATH='~/Software/java/jdk1.6.0_24'
the ls command results in the same error, however javac is found.I prefer the '~' symbol anyway, but would like to understand why the ls command does not work for either, and why it seems as though ${HOME} is not being expanded.
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Apr 23, 2010
I am testing a PCI card in a 4-slot bus expansion chassis. I bought the chassis from CoolDrives.com, it appears to be identical to the Startech PEX2PCI4 unit, but was quite a bit cheaper... This device shows up on my lspci output:
05:00.0 PCI bridge: Texas Instruments XIO2000(A)/XIO2200(A) PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge (rev 03)
I think that the following line may also be associated with this device:
06:07.0 PCI bridge: Hint Corp HB6 Universal PCI-PCI bridge (non-transparent mode) (rev 11)
I've installed in the expansion chassis one card, a Linux Media Labs BT484 card. This card works out-of-the-box when installed directly in the system, using the bttv driver. Installed in the expansion chassis, the card still shows up as follows:
07:00.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
07:00.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture (rev 11)
07:01.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video Capture (rev 11)
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When the card is installed directly in the motherboard it gets IRQ17 or 18. I suspect that it does not really want IRQ0, but that there is some problem detecting the proper IRQ over the bus expander. One possible approach I am considering is to build a custom version of the driver where I can set the IRQ manually to something else just to get the driver to finish loading, then see what happens when I run the card. This would at least tell me which IRQ the hardware is really using and whether or not the 0 reported is correct or not.
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Mar 24, 2010
I'm trying to use brace expansion on a string, but I can't seem to get it working with variable substitution:
Code:
$ cat script.sh
#!/bin/bash
echo {1,2,3} # 1.
VAR=1,2,3
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I've searched google, tldp.org and these forums and I can't seem to find an example of how this would work. I want #2 to work like #1. Any suggestions?
**Edit: I forgot to add, the values in VAR are not sequential and can have multiple digits. For example, VAR=13,17,10.
**Edit2: [URL] The bottom line of code in the first gray block of code shows that you cannot use variables in such an expansion:
Code:
#!/bin/bash
a=1
b=5
echo {$a..$b}
But I'm looking for pasting the complete contents of a variable into these braces, not some portion of it...
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Jan 20, 2011
What I am trying to accomplish is a way to read only the lines that have been added to the file mylog0 since the last time the script looped (5 seconds). I am open to new suggestions too, I have been stuck on this little script for a few hours already.
Code: #!/bin/bash
i=0
firstline=0
[code]...
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Dec 21, 2010
I plugged in a seagate expansion drive 1Tb into my linux server for backup purposes but it is unable to mount it. I can see the expansion drive in My computer but when I click on it, it says unable to mount, device already mounted or busy. Windows can read the hard disk with no problems. It is ntfs formatted. I installed ntfs kernel and fuse. Ntfs is displayed when I run cat /proc/filesystems. However it just can't mount the expansion drive.
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Apr 16, 2010
Summary: I want to have /var (and perhaps /tmp and/or /etc) to be on the same partition as /home.
Right now I have a simple setup. 7.4 GB /dev/sda2 mounted as / and 137 GB /dev/sda3 mounted as /home. /var is important, because that's where I have tens of MySQL databases. This setup causes several problems: * I'd like to have /var separately from / so that I can freely erase everything on /dev/sda2 and start over. * I'm running out of space (~800MB free) and I'm afraid that it might not be enough to dist-upgrade to Lucid.
I tried copying /var to /home/var and making a symlink to it, but that didn't work (had to reverse it from LiveUSB).
How should it be done properly? I've read something about bind in fstab, but haven't found a straightforward solution.
that's my fstab:
Code:
# / was on /dev/sda2 during installation
UUID=6aaab958-6d51-41f1-8c07-e1139fc9b222 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda3 during installation
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Aug 11, 2010
I am laying the groundwork to set up a separate /home partition as this seems the best way to safeguard all my settings and files from disaster.
I have read a number of howto's on the subject but they haven't used the same method - it seems to me.
Firstly I'm quite happy about the partitioning element of the process. I need to shrink my current Ubuntu partition and create a new one for my /home folder, after making a note of the uuid (as I will need that later).
How big does the root partition need to be to accommodate any future updates/kernels etc?
Is ext4 advisable for the new /home partition?
The process after partitioning seems somewhat complicated, from what I've been reading. Basically the process involves copying my existing /home folder to the new location, telling the OS to mount that new /home partition instead of the old /home, then deleting or renaming the old /home.
However, in practise it doesn't look that simple. There seem to be many terminal commands involved that I don't understand.
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Jan 3, 2011
I'm getting ready to do a new install & looking for some tips about how to add a home partition. I've done a bunch of installs starting at 6.x but have never used a home partition. I was even wondering if you could put a home partition on a completely separate drive too. Does it mean that if I upgrade at a later time I can use the same home partition for the upgraded version?
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Nov 7, 2009
I'm a Linux newbie and trying put ubuntu jaunty for a while now. So far it's been a nice experience , so I want to devote more disk space to ubuntu. I'm currently dual booting with winxp sp2 and recently I've used Gparted to cut down about 20Gb from windows and reformatted it as ext3.But the problem is i don't know how to add it to home so that i dont have to mount it every time.
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Jul 27, 2010
I have an Acer Aspire One and I would like to boot from an SCHD card installed into the system Expansion port. It works fine when used in a USB stick. When I check the boot order the expansion port is not listed as an option. There is an option for doing a network expansion. Are there any bios updates that would read that port on startup?
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Oct 21, 2010
it says cant mount volume and wont recognize my seagate expansion drive after I had the seagate plugged in to a windows pc! It says something about using command line to fix it but I'm new to Linux and don't know what to do!
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Sep 5, 2009
This script is intended to allow you to simultaneously run a command on a set of remote hosts in a single gnome-terminal tabbed window. It runs it through screen so if it's a long process it's immune to network failures.
The command string gets built ok, but when it comes to executing the gnome-terminal command, it chokes with
Quote:
Argument to "--command/-e" is not a valid command: Text ended before matching quote was found for ". (The text was '"ssh')
If you copy/paste the "Running: gnome-terminal" line, it works as expected.
I'm pretty sure the problem is with the commandline variable expansion, but dont know what else to try.
Another thing I'd like to be able to do is keep the shell open after the command finishes. Right now, I just get "screen terminated" and the gnome-terminal tab says bye-bye.
Code:
Code:
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Jun 5, 2009
I've added a new LUN to my Centos 5.2 server using Powerpath and have added it to an ext3 logical volume. I extended the logical volume using lvextend and the new space shows up correctly in lvdisplay. What I'm having problems with is getting Centos to see the new disk space (df -h shows 500GB, not 600GB as expected). I've tried running a resize2fs on the new volume but it tells me that "the filesystem is already n blocks long. Nothing to do". Does any one know where I'm going wrong? If possible I'd like to sort this without a reboot.
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Feb 14, 2010
I keep my /home on a separate partition. After every clean install of Ubuntu my old panel configuration is loaded. Meaning, shortcuts on my panel and different applets I've put on my panels as well.
what file in the /home folder is keeping these settings? Simply, I'd like to delete so I can have that "fresh" install feeling on my desktop.
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Mar 9, 2010
What's the size of your /home partition? I'm thinking about 1~2 GB, but then there is Wine's C drive. Is it good to move the C drive folder on another partition and pointing to it with a symbolic link?
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