How do I resize a filesystem partition in Ubuntu?

To resize a partition:

  1. Select an unmounted partition. See the section called “Selecting a Partition”.
  2. Choose: Partition → Resize/Move. The application displays the Resize/Move /path-to-partition dialog.
  3. Adjust the size of the partition.
  4. Specify the alignment of the partition.
  5. Click Resize/Move.

How do I increase the size of my filesystem root?

How to extend root filesystem using LVM on Linux

  1. Create an LVM physical volume, volume group, and logical volume.
  2. Create an XFS and ext4 filesystem on the logical volumes.
  3. Extend LVM logical volumes ( root and non-root filesystem)

How do I reduce the size of my root partition?

Reduce the size of root filesystem

  1. First, boot the system into rescue mode.
  2. Activate the logical volume to be reduced.
  3. Reduce the size of the file system and logical volume on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00.
  4. Finally reduce the size of the logical volume containing the root file system:

What you will do if the root filesystem is full?

  1. Get your root filesystem under root SVM control or Veritas control.
  2. Create one more subdisk or a slice and attach the root slice to the newly. created one.
  3. Then run growfs command.

How do I shrink the root partition in GParted?

How to do it…

  1. Select the partition with plenty of free space.
  2. Choose the Partition | Resize/Move menu option and a Resize/Move window is displayed.
  3. Click on the left-hand side of the partition and drag it to the right so that the free space is reduced by half.
  4. Click on Resize/Move to queue the operation.

What do you do when a file system is full in Linux?

Fixing problem when the disk is full

  1. Compress uncompressed log and other files using gzip or bzip2 or tar command:
  2. Delete unwanted files using rm command on a Unix-like system:
  3. Move files to other system or external hard disk using rsync command:

How do I clear disk space in Linux?

How to Clean Up Disk Space in Linux

  1. Delete Big files. The most basic strategy is to identify and delete any unnecessary files that consume lot of space.
  2. Remove unnecessary packages.
  3. Remove unnecessary applications.
  4. Clean up apt-cache in Ubuntu.
  5. Clean up System Logs.

How do I resize a filesystem root in Linux?

Select the root partition you want to resize. In this case, we only have one partition that belongs to the root partition, so we choose to resize it. Press the Resize/Move button to resize the selected partition. Enter the size that you want to take out from this partition in the first box.

How do I increase disk size in Ubuntu?

If there is more than one volume on the disk, select the volume which contains the filesystem. In the toolbar underneath the Volumes section, click the menu button. Then click Resize Filesystem… or Resize… if there is no filesystem. A dialog will open where the new size can be chosen.