Hello Forum,

I've been using Fedora Linux 26 on a dual boot machine for about 9 months. I've received a message that /home is running out of space. I use Linux exclusively now and would like to just remove Windows 10 Enterprise from the machine entirely.

I need to keep all of my Linux install and make sure that I increase the size of /home. I have made a Fedora Live boot USB and have gparted installed. Any help would be appreciated. Below my signature I've included the output of fdisk -l.

Thank you for your time. I'm really glad this forum is here.

-Steven

$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 232.9 GiB, 250059350016 bytes, 488397168 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x3660e2bf

Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/sda1 * 2048 1126399 1124352 549M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda2 1126400 330772479 329646080 157.2G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3 330772480 332867583 2095104 1023M 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda4 332873665 488396799 155523135 74.2G f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 332873728 348395519 15521792 7.4G 7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda6 348397568 350494719 2097152 1G 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 350496768 488396799 137900032 65.8G 8e Linux LVM

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-root: 39.7 GiB, 42622517248 bytes, 83247104 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-swap: 6.7 GiB, 7172259840 bytes, 14008320 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

Disk /dev/mapper/fedora-home: 19.4 GiB, 20807942144 bytes, 40640512 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
[sackerman@localhost ~]$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs devtmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 3.0M 7.8G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 2.0M 7.8G 1% /run
tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/mapper/fedora-root ext4 39G 10G 27G 27% /
tmpfs tmpfs 7.8G 148K 7.8G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 ext4 976M 178M 732M 20% /boot
/dev/mapper/fedora-home ext4 19G 16G 2.1G 89% /home
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 24K 1.6G 1% /run/user/42
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 5.8M 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000
@localhost ~]$ sudo parted /dev/sda "print free"
Model: ATA Samsung SSD 850 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 250GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
32.3kB 1049kB 1016kB Free Space
1 1049kB 577MB 576MB primary ntfs boot
2 577MB 169GB 169GB primary ntfs
3 169GB 170GB 1073MB primary ntfs
170GB 170GB 3113kB Free Space
4 170GB 250GB 79.6GB extended lba
5 170GB 178GB 7947MB logical ntfs
6 178GB 179GB 1074MB logical ext4
7 179GB 250GB 70.6GB logical lvm
250GB 250GB 188kB Free Space

You should be able to simply delete the Win10 partitions - /dev/sda[123]. Create a single partition (including that currently trapped unallocated space) and do a pvcreate on it, then add it to the vg that contains /home. Expand /home.

Done.

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I'm looking into that now. I'll post my progress. Thanks for the reply.

Ok, I have deleted the partitions, but I am not sure how to create a single partition, do a pvcreate on it, then add it to the vg that contains /home and expand /home. I would appreciate any help with that part. I have a snapshot of Gparted, maybe that will help.

Thank you,

Steven

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If you are going to use LVM, and it's very useful as this illustrates, get to know it. RHEL publish a free to download LVM Admin guide that explains the concepts, uses and commands - go get it. Also has scenarios like yours that it steps through.
There are hundreds of LVM articles on the web, but I like the guide.

Well, I did delete the Windows partitions and looked through most of the admin guide for LVM that was suggested. I still can't figure it out. I now just have a system that has the same partitions on it. I'm not sure where exactly to go from here. Anyone's help would be appreciated.

-Steven

IN your picture it looks like you already did the pvcreate on it, since it's a single lvm partition. You just need to add it to the VG and expand /home now.

Sorry, that manual has become more of a reference than it was. It has the info in it, but not as a "tutorial" so much. LVM is a emulation layer that allows you to consolidate non-contiguous extents (usually partitions) into a logical view. Let's see these commands.

Below is the output from the commands. Nice be able to see this. Nine months of use and I'm still learning the basics of using the OS. Sorry for the slow response, we just adopted a newborn to add to our existing 3 children, we moved and I'm going to school. I really appreciate the help.

It looks like I have over 85GB in my home. After I deleted my Windows partitions I just reinstalled fedora, am I reading this correctly? Thanks again.

-Steven

It wouldn't appear so - you asked for assistance then just re-installed over the top ?. Very poor form IMHO.Actually you have 86G free from 98G allocated to /home. When posting output use [code] tags as I have done for you - that way we can read it too.

You now have 2 complete Fedora installs; if and when you want to consolidate the space - without re-installing - LVM has the tools to allow that space to be reclaimed and added to your active system.

Wrong post.

Poor form? I suppose you could look at it that way. Actually when I deleted my Windows partition, I got an error when I took about my USB stick and restarted. I think it said,
Code:
No partition table found!
When I hit enter I could then boot into Fedora. If I remember right, I still saw the option to boot into Windows. I needed this machine running, so I reinstalled. Simple as that. If it's not obvious, I don't know what I'm doing and I'm trying to figure it out. I'm not afraid to try stuff myself; I really don't need or appreciate passive condescension though. That's what your reply strikes me as. If that is not, no harm done, eh?

I'll post how I do it, so some other person may be able to fix their situation. It may be a little while before I'm able to figure out how to fix the whole thing. I cannot believe I did that. I thought it didn't look right. At least I know how to do a backup.