After trying to download all 3 Extra Cds from the MEPIS ftp site,
I get a "Disk Full" error message. Yes, my home directory is full, but the drive
has over 100 Gigs of free space.

Is there any way to re-size a Home Directory?

I'd like to use QTParted, but I can't find a user guide for it, yet...

If there is another way, please help. I just printed the "Quick Setup"
guide yesterday. I needed to be productive today rather than read,
which is what I never have time to do due to medical issues/research.

I'll get on with reading NOW.

Thanks for the advice,

salman

As far as I can tell, the extra CDs install packages. Why are they installing to your /home folder?

In any case, there's no guide to QTParted because it's dead-simple. You just click on the partition you want to resize, resize it, and then click "Save & Commit Changes."

It's probably not a bad idea to back up your files before doing any kind of resizing.

To be perfectly honest, though, the cleanest and best way to do this is to back up your email and internet settings (for me, these are the .thunderbird and .mozilla folders in /home/username), back up your files, and just do a clean reinstall of Mepis, erasing all partitions and repartitioning to how you want it.

What's your current partitioning scheme?

Hi,

The latest edition of Mepis i have is only 1 cd. It runs as live and from the desktop, you can install the OS there.

Curious why you have 3 disks though.

Also, for QTparted, that is dead simple to use.

This is how my system is set up for partitions:

1st HD is 40g-

hda1 40g NTFS (Used for WinXP and Games)

2nd HD 120g-

hdb1 10g /root ext3 (For my Linux dist.)
hdb2 10g /home ext3 (For my personal settings)
hdb3 1g SWAP
hdb4 98g FAT32 (for all my multimedia and files that will be used on XP and Mepis)

I'll do the backups and start again fresh.

I wanted 3 CDs because there is 3 "Extras" available for download.

I wanted to put them in a folder, "downloads" in my home directory. The trouble I had with QTParted is when I right-click a partition, I don't get an option to resize it.

I would love to take a class, but I'm deaf; I must be willing to experiment if I want to learn
this.

I read the Quick Start manual and did not see anything really related to
system administration. I'll hit the book store in an hour.

Thanks again for the advice,

salmamal

Why not save the extra CD ISO's to a drive/partition with more room, also to just use MEPIS, that is all you need to do, if you have a need to forefull. It will work out of the box just fine, no extra CD's needed.
Wait till you have more time before learning the finer points of MEPIS, just use it in the mean time.
If you have problems doing this, try searching the forums, Wiki etc, if that fails, sing out here. You will be surprised with the quality and speed of the replies.

Forget the extra CD problem for now and get the job done.

What's the scope of your job you want to do. Help is here.
N_H

I burned my Home directory and deleted the files. As Istated earlier, there's plenty of space on my hard drive; I wanted to know how to increase the size of my home directory.

I purchased Michael Cagne's book on Knoppix before I installed MEPIS the first time.
Today, I discovered there are 2 books; 1 on Knoppix, the other on ssystem administration.
With only the ability of getting documentation online due to deafness, I'd better install
a distro with more documentation in stores; and, online.

I used to work for O'Reilly (my first exposure to UNIX 10 years ago); there,
the idea was to document undocumented applications. I'd love to keep MEPIS on my PC,
but documentation is an issue for me.

Summary, MEPIS is a friendly distro that uses GRUB to boot, whereas, Knoppix uses LILO.

MEPIS only lasted a week before filling up Home, SuSE ran several months before I destroyed my first partition.

Generally speaking, /home fills up because if stuff you put there. Are you downloading anything? And if so, can it be burned to CD and deleted? It may be time to tiptoe thru the directories and take inventory of what's needed & what's not.
When I set up a Linux system, I try to give it ample room for /home, because that's where the user's personal files are stored. /root tends to not grow as much unless you like to install tons of stuff. For example, my 80GB Linux drive is partitioned with 59GB for /home & 15GB for /root, and a 1.5GB swap. It may sound like overkill but I don't install much besides what comes with Mepis, and I download TONS of stuff. The /home to /root ratio should be determined by your needs, and it sounds like next time give more to /home.

hope this helps


ave

Thanks Ave,

I think I will start over with MEPIS if I want it set up properly. I thought I set up home with at least 20 gigs. I burned the home
directory and deleted the files so I could log in again. There seems to be no documentation on
the partitioner, I understand because this is the nature of "the Beast" when a user community sets up a distro and trys
to support it. The MEPIS users are really great!

In the meantime, I think I'll go to a more known Distro for documentation. I am deaf and VERY dependant on documentation
without the ability to take a course.

I have recommended MEPIS to my friend taking a RH course at this time. I feel RH is getting too
big for it's britches to be a REAL Linux community and went with SuSE before I accidentally
re-partitioned the MBR partition and tried MEPIS.

I am currently using WTFL Knoppix (Live Distro) and like it. I loved MEPIS, BTW, it was quie user-friendly. (except documentation)

Thanks again,

salmanal

salmanal-

Sorry you're having such troubles with the partitioner! Found a FAQ here: http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/faq.en.html
I do believe the Mepis installer has a auto-partition option, that will assign the partitions itself. I usually opt to do it myself, as I'm saving /home from a previous install.
Thanks for trying Mepis, and if you have any more questions, feel free to ask.


ave

After trying several "Live" distros :NOTE; the WTFL Knoppix demo was very close to
what I want and need, but the author of the book in which it came, recommended
not installing from the CD unless you're very experienced with Linux - HA!
There went Knoppix....

I also tried Debian, which is a complex install. Very thourough and inclusive,
but the next release will be in Lunux magazine at the end of this week, I can wait
for this or Linux World.

Thanks for the support while I was attempting to figure out QTParted;
it is almost like Partition Magic, but different enough to make you
think you're using something else.

Now my partitions are as needed for MEPIS.



Again, thanks for the support.

Regards,

salmanal

This thread has some good info on "home partition full" woes.
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=348227

I like the sound of basileus's answer [post #5], not that've tried it.NH

Just tried out Basileus's answer mentioned in my last post.

It worked well.

Moved all users home folder/s from 20g HDD to 40g HDD.
Can boot all existing users. New users are created in the new home folder on 40g HDD. Idea is to leave 20g HDD for Sys files only and 40g HDD for users files.

Last thing to do is tidy/clean up the fstab file, my first attempt at the fstab tidy up left me unable to boot into any user, going to put the old messy one back and revisit the fstab clean up later.
Happy at the moment with home folder for all users moved to new HDD. Not enough time at the moment to play.
Cheers NH

I'm actually not anywhere near my PC, 8 hours from it with no outside access allowed.

The day B 4 I left, I installed SuSE again and it works well. When I return, I wish to install
Debian just to play with it.

Solaris is also running well along with SuSe, but setting up dual booting with Solaris
is not as easy as D B Linux and Windows; nonetheless, with MS Windows off my machine,
I have nothing to complain about - only rejoicing to do.