Root partition full, how to access home?
Submitted by Barry T on Wed, 01/31/2007 - 22:26.
Partitioning and Formatting
Posts: 23
Posts: 23
Hi, guys!
When I installed MEPIS a couple of months ago, I partitioned the hard drive as per a wiki on these pages, thusly:
Partition 1-/dev/hda1, type ext3, 5gB; Partition 2-/dev/hda2, type linux-swap, 1 gB; Partition 3-/dev/hda-1, type-free, 68 gB. I thought I was relegating 5 gB to "root", 1 gB to "swap", and the rest to "home". But after using MEPIS for a while, root is almost full and there is nothing in the third partition, which I thought was supposed to be "home", but qtparted is calling "free". The third partition also has a status (in qtparted) of "hidden". How can I tell MEPIS to start putting stuff in "home" or "free", instead of filling up root? Thanks!
You need to format that
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You need to format that partition and you can move /username folder to that partitions
mv username /mnt/partitionname/
and then edit /etc/fstab and make it mount /username as home, add a line like this in /etc/fstab (first part of the file):
/dev/hd## /home auto defaults,noatime 1 1
where /dev/hd## is the partion name of the new partition.
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