On Tue, 9/21/10, earlscott3(a)comcast.net <earlscott3(a)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