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If this is a matter of "disk space," a-n-di-f you configured Linux with "LVM = Logical Volume Management" support, then the matter is easy: you install a new drive, add it to a physical storage pool, then allocate all or part of its space to a logical volume. Resize the filesystem upward and you're done.
Without knowing how your drive(s) are currently configured and what you mean by a few gigs it is a bit difficult to help. As indicated there are many ways to add space. Please post the output of the commands:
Post the results here, being sure to enclose them in "code" tags, which become available when you click the "Go Advanced" button at the bottom of the compose post windows.
If it is a working machine, you could try to get some more diskspace, by deleting tmp files or snapshots. I am using Snapper, which creates automatic snapshots of the system. By default it maintains about 10 images of the system. Each one taking several GBs. Hence deleting like 5 of them and change settings so that only 5 are kept (or even less), did free up large amounts of space for me at times.
depending on the Linux System being used,
- it may have Disk Useage Analyer ( Baobab ) installed,
which will tell you what directory / folder(s) have the most stored in them.
then use that information, to either:
- delete some files.
- move some files, to a USB stick / HDD
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