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Old 03-30-2009, 10:19 AM   #1
lakshmi4linux
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Migration of space from /home to root


Hi,

Please help me on this.

While installing debian, the administrator provide only 250MB to root and 60 Gb to /home in my machine. when i provide apt-get install command it shows no space.

Now i need to migrate 35GB from /home to root and need to create LVM for another 15Gb from /home. pl help me out in these operation by providing the procedures. /home is of ext3 filesystem

Thanks in Advance!
 
Old 03-31-2009, 03:28 AM   #2
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from the looks it seems that u have made hard partitions, if thats the case then reinstalling seems to be the only solution left.

can u attach the output of df -h, for further review
 
  


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