Partitioning

[Expatparis]

Hello Everyone,

I am new user of LL and a real rookie. I have installed LL on dual boot with W10 and love the new OS over my W10 but I have an issue which would appreciate your expert thoughts on.

When using Firefox / Chromium, I cannot download and save any pdf files and always get the download failed - disk full error. Now I have been updating LL and installing several apps I needed and they dl / install like a breeze but pdf files have been giving me this message from day one.

Here is what I get on GParted as details of the partitions.

Partition            File System        Mount Point        Label                          Size                  Used              Unused
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/dev/sda1          ntfs                                          System Reserved        100.00 MiB      32.75 MiB      67.25 MiB
/dev/sda2          ntfs                  /media/mm...    WINDOWS                  196.19 GiB      109.31 GiB    86.88 GiB 
/dev/sda3          ntfs                                                                            469.00 MiB      382.95 MiB    86.05 MiB
unallocated        unallocated                                                                  2.00 MiB
/dev/sda4          extended                                                                    36.14 GiB
/dev/sda5          ext4                /                                                          35.70 GiB        11.37 GiB      24.33 GiB
/dev/sda6          ext4                /home                                                  450.00 MiB      423.49 MiB    26.51 MiB

Any thoughts are appreciated. I just hope I don't have to redo the installation.

Many Thanks

[firenice03]

Your /home is only MB which downloads are going to /home/downloads...


If you need to download you maybe able to save to /tmp for the time being.


You'll want/need to expand/home... Looks like you should be able to add the extended, sda4 if it's not in use to it but you'll may have to redo /home (sda6).. . So back it up and sda4..




Or... you could try shrinking windows and take some of the 80gb available.... adding to /sda6 aka /home

[Expatparis]

Thanks for the reply.
I am going to shrink the Windows drive and add some GBs to my home.

Cheers

[firenice03]

[member=25866]Expatparis[/member]
Sounds good

If you haven't yet - the manual points to some good info - https://www.135978621.xyz/manual/insta...stallguide

Specifically..
Defragment your largest Windows partition (likely the "C: drive"). If Windows partitions currently span the entire hard drive, one (or more) of its partitions will need to be shrunk down to make room for the Linux installation.
Shrink the Windows partition from within Windows disk management. (You can shrink the partition during the installation, but it is probably best to use Windows to shrink Windows partitions.)
If you defragmented and shrunk the Windows partition ahead of time, leave the resulting space as unpartitioned, unused, free space. DO NOT create any new partitions from within Windows for the Linux Lite installation.




Good Luck

[Expatparis]

Great. Thanks for the headsup and the super helpful link.

I am going to do it tonight and with the info you gave me I would take the below steps then:

1. Backup everything on my LL
2. Login to Windows 10 and defragment the Windows drive (all C drive in my case)
3. Shrink the Win drive via windows DM
4. Leave the free space unpartitioned
5. Go to LL using my LL installation drive and head to Use LL without installation
6. Go to GParted and add the unpartitioned space to my /home

Does that sound like the right thing to do?

Thanks again

[firenice03]

Great. Thanks for the headsup and the super helpful link.

I am going to do it tonight and with the info you gave me I would take the below steps then:

1. Backup everything on my LL
2. Login to Windows 10 and defragment the Windows drive (all C drive in my case)
3. Shrink the Win drive via windows DM
4. Leave the free space unpartitioned
5. Go to LL using my LL installation drive and head to Use LL without installation
6. Go to GParted and add the unpartitioned space to my /home

Does that sound like the right thing to do?

Thanks again

Since its home (separate parition) - you should be able to do within the LL OS (not install) - thru the sane methods using gparted.. I'd have to look but gparted maybe able to expand the partition without having to completely wipe it and redo....
*you'll probably just need to unmount it prior to resizing - gparted should have that option else via terminal..

Code:

sudo umount /home

[Expatparis]

Just an update to say it is "done like dinner" 
I followed all the steps you said and yeah GParted does have the option to unmount.
Added 30 GB to home and tested a few downloads. All works well and no hiccups during the process 

Many thanks again & happy weekend

[firenice03]

Many thanks again & happy weekend

[member=25866]Expatparis[/member]


Glad you got sorted out!!!
You as well...