linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] low disc space

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] low disc space

Parted Magic is a Live CD. You download the ISO and burn to disk. It is now commercial. I forgot that. If you go to their site they will ask for money. It was free for many years. :(

Instead you can use SystemRescueCD. Or you can download any version of Ubuntu and burn it to disk.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/systemrescuecd/

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto

If you can boot from usb that is the easiest route. Just install Unetbootin from the repositories and it will download the ISO and write it to a usb stick. (Tip: insert the usb stick before you open the application or it can't find the usb stick.)

Roy

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 1:28:21 PM, Gerry <gerry@dragonmobility.com> wrote:

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your comments, I didn't get an installation disc. Is the program you mention available as a free download & if so where can I find it ?

Cheers,

Gerry.

On 24/04/14 15:12, Linux Canuck wrote:

Yes. You will need to boot the installation disk or download Parted Magic and work from there. Then you will need to use the partition manager (Gparted or similar) to shrink and adjoining partition and to enlarge the one that you want to make larger. Do NOT work from your installed Ubuntu or you risk making a big mess.

Roy

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 9:29:43 AM, "gerry@dragonmobility.com" <gerry@dragonmobility.com> wrote:

Hi, every time I start up my pc it displays a low disk space message, it says "this computer has only 196.7MB disk space remaining. I'm running 10.04 lucid, the guy who set it up partitioned the disk & there is 62 GB of unused free space on an 80GB disk. is there any way I can I free it up for use ? Regards, Gerry.