How to find partition size(s) when the install was automatic

[T6]

the default install always create a root partition, a swap partition and a home partition

i never used that, i only have a root partition and swap, my home is just a folder in the root partition

12 gbs could give you problems under specific circumstances, i remember a couple posts mentioning related problems that could be fixed but yes, if you are going to keep those partitions, i would make it 20 gbs in size

if you are going to install lots of games, 20 gbs could not be enough

if you are not going to play games, don't plan to burn lots of dvds and all you going to do is install libreoffice those 12gbs sounds enough for the moment

[Jim Dandy]

the default install always create a root partition, a swap partition and a home partition

i never used that, i only have a root partition and swap, my home is just a folder in the root partition

12 gbs could give you problems under specific circumstances, i remember a couple posts mentioning related problems that could be fixed but yes, if you are going to keep those partitions, i would make it 20 gbs in size

if you are going to install lots of games, 20 gbs could not be enough

if you are not going to play games, don't plan to burn lots of dvds and all you going to do is install libreoffice those 12gbs sounds enough for the moment

Not really a gamer so that isn't really an issue. I did download the two pinball games from the repository because I have always loved pinball. Thanks.

I still don't know how to increase the root partition using Gparted. I can't use the live cd I have at the moment because my dvd drive is shot.

[Yankee]

No swap partition? How could that be?

"df" doesn't show swap partitions. Nor does it show unmounted partitions.

I always use "fsarchiver probe" in root terminal to see connected drives.
But, you have to take a second and install fsarchiver from  Synaptic.

[Just17]

It would be too much trouble to extend the root partition by any more than the 4 GB swap is occupying, IMO.

I would suggest you reduce the /home partition by some 20 to 25 GBs and using a liveCD/DVD/USB  rsync the contents of the existing root partition onto the bigger one.
After that to use the new copy of root you would change the fstab file and the menu.lst file to point to the new root.

It would ensure that nothing went amiss while re-sizing.

Another idea might be to make a remaster of the existing system, excluding the contents of the /home partition.
You could then install it anew into the bigger partition I suggested above.

Either way ....  resizing all three partitions would take an inordinate amount of time and carry with it the damger of data corruption.

[T6]

"Not really a gamer so that isn't really an issue. I did download the two pinball games from the repository because I have always loved pinball. Thanks."

those are not big games for me, i call big games to something exceeding 400mbs in hard disk

"I still don't know how to increase the root partition using Gparted. I can't use the live cd I have at the moment because my dvd drive is shot."

i still suggest you to leave system as it is now

if you really want to change sizes is considerably faster, more secure and easy to just reinstall after having copied files on home partition to somewhere else

i would create only one ext4 partition with the entire hard disk and make it root or / and create a swap partition the way you mentioned you have now

this way you can't run out of root space unless you decide to edit on your hard disk every single video you have, 1 TB is alot to fill, at least for me

if you still want to resize partitions, make backups of your important files first, remember that when playing with partitions you can end loosing every file, it is easy to make a mistake

[Jim Dandy]

Thanks everyone. Maybe I will just wait until I get a new dvd drive and then just do a reinstall and this time do the custom partition when given the opportunity. It wouldn't be such a big deal--at this point I don't have much stuff saved on the drive and most of it, to be honest, is just pictures (wallpaper). My mail is in gmail and I haven't downloaded any youtube or other videos since the download helper for firefox didn't seem to work for me.

Thanks again.