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Tuesday, July 5, 2016

Getting More Competent at Linux Adminiwtration

The PC with the special LinuxCNC build (based on Debian 8) ran out of disk space.  The default installation creates a 20 GB partition into which the home directories go.  After struggling with a damaged install disk, I used the SystemRescueCD program to repartition the drive.  Now /dev/sda has a 120 GB size, plenty big.  I am thrilled that some of this is slowly coming back.
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2 comments:

  1. marinerJuly 6, 2016 at 9:23 AM

    I hope you meant you made /home or /home/your_username larger.

    /dev/sda is the device name of your first hard drive.

    I have for a long time created a separate partition for stuff most people put in their home directories. I call that partition "files" and mount it to /home/my_username.

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  2. Clayton CramerJuly 7, 2016 at 7:35 AM

    I knew that is the better solution, but this was easy to do. The next time I will do that.

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