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File storage limitations

Asked by Paul

I partitioned an 8G Thumb Drive for ubuntu 11.04.

I partitioned 2G as FAT32.

All was well until I upgraded to 11.10 and added a few programs I wanted.

Now I am getting a critical root storage full message.

It appears I only have 217MG available and it recommends that I delete or move files from root.

My question is, can I change the FAT32 partition of the thumb drive to add more space for ubuntu?
And/Or can I add a partition on my laptop's hard drive and move files to it?

That would mean I need instructions on how to move files and change my default loading folder(s) for new programs I may want to add.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo apt-get clean; lsb_release -a; uname -a; dpkg -l | grep linux-image-

Thanks

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Paul (pjmfa) said : 		#2

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 11.10
Release: 11.10
Codename: oneiric
Linux paul-Presario-CQ62-Notebook-PC 3.0.0-12-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 7 14:50:42 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
rc linux-image-2.6.38-12-generic 2.6.38-12.51 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64
rc linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic 2.6.38-8.42 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.38 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-3.0.0-12-generic 3.0.0-12.20 Linux kernel image for version 3.0.0 on x86/x86_64
ii linux-image-generic 3.0.0.12.14 Generic Linux kernel image

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

Paul:

you can also clean up some space by removing foreign language support (or just the languages you don't need)

run, in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install localepurge

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Paul (pjmfa) said : 		#4

Mycae,

So far so good... Thanks for the information. I am new to linux and I can't figure out how to select just the language (english - US) from the list. Could you guide me on that? Thank you

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

also run:

sudo dpkg -P linux-image-2.6.38-8-generic; sudo apt-get --purge autoremove

May also help. You could also clear your browser cache and move it to a tempfs to not only save space but to also save wear on the device. You can also further reduce wear by adding the option:

noatime

to the mounts in /etc/fstab

For example:
UUID=8c667652-206a-489f-ac4e-d9573b82e9ca / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1

Would become:
UUID=8c667652-206a-489f-ac4e-d9573b82e9ca / ext4 errors=remount-ro,noatime 0 1

This is from MY system, your UID will be different.

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Paul (pjmfa) said : 		#6

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.