hi there,
i need some help in order to be able to add free space to my home folder partition.
attached is a screen shot of my current partition manager state.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1017317245 ... 7721972946
sda2 had Windows before and it is now free space
also there are another 9.77 GIB free.
how do i allocate them to my home folder ?
problem is that the home folder does not let me unmount.
thank you,
Guy.

your picasa link is bad

I assume you logged in as you and thus you can't unmount it as your account requires /home, you would need to login as root (root's home is /root) or boot from a live cd

if you're gonna do anything that affects your /home partition you should back it up first

these are probably your options:
1) if the free space is adjacent to /home then you could grow home (growing does involve risk)
2) if the free space is not adjacent then you could use lvm, Goolge for explanation
3) you could use the freed up Windows partition as a separate music/video partition or for whatever you need the added space for which be the safest course

hi,
yes, i did log in as me. i can not boot from a CD as my reader is long broken.
how do i do it otherwise ?
now i changed the viewing configuration. sorry.
https://picasaweb.google.com/1017317245 ... 7721972946

and yes, i would like to grow home, if possible.

you can convert a livecd iso file to boot from a usb drive using something like unetbootin, some distros might provide alternative methods

you should be able to unmount and manage /home if you login as root

you could only grow /home with your /swap partition as it is adjacent

to log in as root, do i have to log out completely, go to virtual terminal alt+ctrl+f1 ?
then type sudo -i ?
and then how do i get to the partition editor ?
and how do i grow home using the /swap ?

kmenu -> leave -> logout, this should bring you the login screen where you then login as root

in partition manager you would need to select the /swap, right click and deactivate it then delete it
then you right click your /home partition and select resize/move and iirc you stretch the gui box on top of the pop window or change the space available after to 0, there's tutorials for this so Google

remember there is risk in resizing a partition

and you'll want to create and mount a new /swap

to start partitonmanager as root just type in the search box in Kmenu

what is the risk in resizing a partition ?

and how do i log in as root ?
i tried to log out, got to the login screen but only had 2 options: log in as me or as a guest (with no password).
as i guest i get denied the access to partition editor

Manually type root as user

You may want to consider using your windows partition for /home, Google copy/move partition results may by with gparted but should be same

where do i type root ? there is only space for the password..

guysadan wrote:what is the risk in resizing a partition ?

the risk is that something goes wrong during the process and the partition gets corrupted and unusable, probably won't happen but you need to be cognizant of the fact that it could

guysadan wrote:and how do i log in as root ?
i tried to log out, got to the login screen but only had 2 options: log in as me or as a guest (with no password).
as i guest i get denied the access to partition editor

is there not a user field where you can enter "root"? in systemsettings -> login screen -> users, you should be able to pick which users are offered at login and you should be able to select root, no idea why you're not seeing a user field but then I don't know what distro or dm (kdm, sddm, lightdm, etc ...) you're using and even then since it isn't what I run I probably couldn't help so you might want to ask on your distros forum

ok,
i am getting there.
i changed the welcome screen and managed to log in as root.
I deactivated the swap. but while trying to erase it, got a message it could not be deleted because other partitions are still mounted.
tried to unmount them but couldn't. it would not let me.

"deactivates swap" ? what exactly do you mean?

did you disable swap with

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swapoff -a

then unmount it and then delete it