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How to extend the hard-disk partition space of home folder

Asked by aneesh

In my ubuntu 8.04 the " / " has 5.6 GB free space but in my "home" directory there is only 35 KB free space .In sda6 ,sda7 and sda8 has alot of free space , but they are ntfs file system .Here I want to extend the space of " home " directory ,because ubuntu evolution mail client is utilising the " home " diroctory space . Is there any method to increase the memory space of "home " directory. How can I utilise the space of sda6,sda7 and sda8 ? please give me a solution

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Copy and paste here the result of these terminal commands:

sudo fdisk -l

the system will ask you a password: give your user password, you will not see nothing when you type it, then press enter

and then still using terminal copy and paste here the result of

mount

command

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

You can boot to live CD and resize partitions. Make sure your backups are sufficiently recent incase of catastrophe. I can suggest clearing old emails, especially ones with attachments to reduce the space used by evolution.

I also recommend installing bleachbit to clear out file caches in $HOME but be careful of the settings you use and avoid commends which say they will take a long time to run, bleachbit can save you a LOT of space and have as many apps closed as you can to release the files. If you run it as root as well you can clean temp files outside of $HOME but again watch the settings you use.

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