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My /root is 100% of hard drive, I want to repartion it

Asked by Farrell Swain

When I installed 13.04 I only had one partition made. I want to repartitionit. I was looking at the editor and don't know what to do. I am afraid to realy right click on the more tools icon without guidance, I would like to create a partition of about 250 GB for the home folder and then maybe experimant with maybe with another version of Linux. I have a full back up on tetra back up but I am still fearfull. Can somebody guide me? Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of :

lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image

Thanks

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Farrell Swain (f-swainjr) said : 		#2

farrell@Butch:~$ lsb_release -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring
ii linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic 3.8.0-19.30 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-21-generic 3.8.0-21.32 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-22-generic 3.8.0-22.33 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-23-generic 3.8.0-23.34 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-25-generic 3.8.0-25.37 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-26-generic 3.8.0-26.38 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-27-generic 3.8.0-27.40 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic 3.8.0-19.30 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-21-generic 3.8.0-21.32 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-22-generic 3.8.0-22.33 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-23-generic 3.8.0-23.34 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic 3.8.0-25.37 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-26-generic 3.8.0-26.38 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-27-generic 3.8.0-27.40 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.8.0.27.45 i386 Generic Linux kernel image
farrell@Butch:~$
Seems I have a lot of garbage

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Yes, you also missed:

uname -a

If you COPY the command I give, instead of attempting to retype it, you will not screw it up and I wouldn't have to request the same data twice. Why did you not copy and paste the command I gave? This is exactly the reason I give the exact command. You can copy to and from the terminal.

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Farrell Swain (f-swainjr) said : 		#4

farrell@Butch:~$ lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 13.04
Release: 13.04
Codename: raring
Linux Butch 3.8.0-27-generic #40-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 9 00:19:35 UTC 2013 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
ii linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic 3.8.0-19.30 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-21-generic 3.8.0-21.32 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-22-generic 3.8.0-22.33 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-23-generic 3.8.0-23.34 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-25-generic 3.8.0-25.37 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-26-generic 3.8.0-26.38 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-3.8.0-27-generic 3.8.0-27.40 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic 3.8.0-19.30 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-21-generic 3.8.0-21.32 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-22-generic 3.8.0-22.33 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-23-generic 3.8.0-23.34 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic 3.8.0-25.37 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-26-generic 3.8.0-26.38 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-extra-3.8.0-27-generic 3.8.0-27.40 i386 Linux kernel image for version 3.8.0 on 32 bit x86 SMP
ii linux-image-generic 3.8.0.27.45 i386 Generic Linux kernel image
farrell@Butch:~$
Sorry for the mistake

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

sudo apt-get --purge remove linux-image-3.8.0-19-generic linux-image-3.8.0-21-generic linux-image-3.8.0-22-generic linux-image-3.8.0-23-generic linux-image-3.8.0-25-generic linux-image-3.8.0-26-generic linux-image-3.8.0-27-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-19-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-21-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-22-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-23-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-25-generic linux-image-extra-3.8.0-26-generic

Will leave the running kernel and the metapackage, this will save you a tonne of space. Also run:

sudo apt-get clean

Hoe that helps

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