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how to increase the size of files system disk

Asked by ollecomte

hello, I've just installed Ubuntu and doing it, my hard drive was divided in three parts : HDD, BACKUP and Files system.
Actually I'm trying to install updates which seem to be installed in the files system disk. My problem is that there's no space enough on this disk to install them.
I've tried to clean it with sudo apt-get clean but it did not freed enough space.
So, does someone can explain me how to increase the size of Files system disk.
Thanks in advance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions

or you could run:

sudo apt-get install deborphan; sudo apt-get --purge remove `deborphan`

to remove orphaned packages.

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pe3k (qyx) said : 		#2

Hi, please provide us more information on which partition types (eg. NTFS/ EXT/...) you have...

Anyway, general answer to your question - you can use any partition manager that is capable of resizing partitions - for Windows there is Partition Magic, for Linux, there is eg. GParted. These programs should resize disk partitions without losing data, but if possible backup first!

Some useful links:
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-2036-how-to-resize-a-partition-using-gparted-on-linux
http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_05.htm
http://www.wikihow.com/Resize-and-Create-Partitions-with-Partition-Magic-8

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Should have a backup regime anyway, if the data is important.

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