20GiB was not enough for / but LVM made re-size easy
by breaker from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6EK3S)
No problem to report, really, except maybe an updated guideline for the size of my / (root) partition on Slackware 15. I thought 20GiB was going to be enough, but I started getting a "running out of room on root" pop up message all the time while using the KDE desktop.
For reference, I installed Slackware 15 last year, and made a post on this forum about the experience: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...8/#post6336411
It is very nice using lvm. I had not used up all the disk space when I created my volumes, so there was a bit of spare space for me to add to the root LV.
After a bit of man page reading, and tinkering, I found out the command to add some spare free space to the root, then increase the ext4 filesystem as well:
Code:lvextend -L+30G -r /dev/ace0/rootNow only ~ 20GiB out of 50GiB are being used by whatever files on the filesystem that is on the root logical volume (I keep wanting to say "partition" but of course, this particular disk doesn't have a partition table at all).
I didn't figure out how to investigate why root filled up.
No huge files in /var/log
For reference, I installed Slackware 15 last year, and made a post on this forum about the experience: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...8/#post6336411
It is very nice using lvm. I had not used up all the disk space when I created my volumes, so there was a bit of spare space for me to add to the root LV.
After a bit of man page reading, and tinkering, I found out the command to add some spare free space to the root, then increase the ext4 filesystem as well:
Code:lvextend -L+30G -r /dev/ace0/rootNow only ~ 20GiB out of 50GiB are being used by whatever files on the filesystem that is on the root logical volume (I keep wanting to say "partition" but of course, this particular disk doesn't have a partition table at all).
I didn't figure out how to investigate why root filled up.
No huge files in /var/log