Hi,

I need to increase the size of my /home directory. I am working with Ubuntu(2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

I checked the partitons with df -h command...the output is :

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 11G 4.3G 6.2G 42% /
none 1001M 560K 1000M 1% /dev
none 1006M 188K 1006M 1% /dev/shm
none 1006M 100K 1006M 1% /var/run
none 1006M 0 1006M 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5 92M 47M 41M 54% /boot
/dev/sda8 145G 3.7G 134G 3% /usr



Clearly /usr has loads of space here...and I dont know /home is mounted with which partiton...I read somewhere that tune2fs command could be useful here...I dont want to experiment and mess up here...nd thought to get some expert assistance first and then proceed....

I would appreciate if anyone could help me here??

Seems to me that you don't have a separate home partition.
I would recommend the following:
1. Boot from a live-medium.
2. Shrink the /dev/sda8-partition to 10 or 15 GB.
3. Create a new partition for /home.
4. Mount the /-partition (/dev/sda7) and the new /home-partition.
5. Move (not copy) all contents of the old /home to the new partition.
6. Create an entry for the new /home-partition in /etc/fstab.
7. Reboot.

Dear TobiSGD,

Thank you for the reply.

The thing is.. I am new to linux...the steps you mentioned is out of my radar.....could you please elaborate..like how to boot from live medium, shrink, create new partition in /home and Mounting..

It will be a great help...

Thanks

I think that you would be better off, with the partition setup that you now have, to back up your data and reinstall using just 2 partitions. Make those / and /home.

There are very good reasons to have more partitions than that but you are not at the stage to need them at all. All those extras will do is cause problems for you.

EDIT
Make your / partition about 4G and leave the rest for /home.

You could use less for / but it may get cramped.

With as little space as you are using you may just want to install on 1 partition (/) and wait for more drive space before installing in a multi partition way.

4GB on / for a Ubuntu standard install is to less go at least for 10 GB to be safe.