I am a new user to Fedora.


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I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download it.


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The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free space without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition and still have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a different partition?


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This command line OS is hard but I am willing to learn.

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On 9/21/10 5:36 PM, earlscott3@comcast.net wrote:
>
> I am a new user to Fedora.
>
> I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates
> stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download it.
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free
> space without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition
> and still have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a
> different partition?
>
Do you have any other partitions on the drive?

Also, please set your mail program to send only plain-text to this list.

Thank you.

James McKenzie

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On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 00:36:13 +0000,
earlscott3@comcast.net wrote:
>
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free space without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition and still have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a different partition?

That doesn't sound right. 3.3 GB is pretty small for /.
The df command will show the partitions used by Fedora. You will see total
space, space used and space available. Some amount of space is help back
for root only, so things won't quite total up.

Usually the reserve is 5% which is kind of high these days.
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On 9/21/10, earlscott3@comcast.net <earlscott3@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>
> I am a new user to Fedora.
>
>
>
> I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates stated
> it needs more room on the root file system in order to download it.
>
>
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free space
> without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition and still
> have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a different
> partition?
>
>
>
> This command line OS is hard but I am willing to learn.



Can you post the output from

df -h

Thanks

Marvin
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On Tue, 9/21/10, earlscott3@comcast.net <earlscott3@comcast.net> wrote:

> I am a new user to Fedora.
>*
> I ran the latest updates and pulled 404 updates. One of the updates
> stated it needs more room on the root file system in order to download
> it.
>
> The root file system is maxed otu at 3.3gb in size. How do I get free
> space without messing up my Fedora? I made an initial 40gb partition
> and still have 34gb to use. Does Fedora consider each file folder a
> different partition?

Not necessarily, but sometimes what appears to be a folder on one partition is really a partition on another drive. For example, I have a 2 drive set up: The first drive is the / partition containing all the system directories (folders) including /home; but /home is not a true directory (folder) but the "mount point" for a partition on the second drive which is the actual "home". In this case, the /home folder is a partition. It isn't always.

To help with your problem, need to know how your drive is configured for Linux. Post the output of the following three commands.

df -h
cat /proc/partitions
cat /etc/fstab

You might be able to use something like gparted to resize your partitions to get more space on your / partition.

Also, please only post plain ascii test here. Thanks.

B



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