How to make more room for Kubuntu?

[perspectoff]

Re: How to make more room for Kubuntu?

I did what you are proposing on a home computer last month.

I moved put all my multimedia files onto a networked external drive NAS for around $150 (like the 2 Tb WD My Book Ethernet version (Live Home Network Drive), or the Buffalo LinkStation, or the Seagate GoFlex Home Network Storage version), so it could easily be accessed by any computer on the LAN (since we have a mix of OS's on many family computers in the house).

After confirming a successful copy to the external drive, I used GParted from the Ubuntu Natty LiveCD (or KDE Partition Manager from the Kubuntu Natty Live CD) to delete the multimedia partition on the computer's hard drive, and then merely expanded the Kubuntu partition to fill the resulting free space. That's it!

My hard drives are each 500 Gb to 1 Tb, so it took some time (about 2-3 hours), but it was painless.

I've never used more than 100 Gb on any Linux distro, even with video editing (which I also do a lot of). I can't fathom needing 341 Gb for a Linux distro, but, of course, it's the temp files for apps that takes up space. Still, I like having all my OS's on a single hard drive and all my data files on separate (for me external) drives. It makes things a bit more portable that way. More than once I've had to relocate my data files from one physical location to another, and it's just easier to move a data hard drive than an entire computer.

[maestrobwh1]

Re: How to make more room for Kubuntu?

If you ever get into a situation where there just physically is not enough room on a drive, you can recover several Gigs doing this, and it works well for flash media or SSD's and the OS runs FASTER on those kinds of devices by doing this:

http://po-ru.com/diary/linux-liposuc...on-the-eee-pc/

I currently don't want to wear out the drive on a computer I use as a server (an Asus EEE-BOX), and have a Western Digital external drive that has built in power saving features where all of my shares are.

No drives are running when the machine is idle and no shares are being accessed via Samba.

Kubuntu is on an 8GB SD card . It was using about 6.5 GB of that space.
inserted into the machines slot.

When /usr is compressed, it is using 3.5 GB. I have a ton of apps installed because I am using the EEE-BOX as a media center.

I also used the logic to squash my .wine folder in my home directory.

Of course, if you were to do a full system upgrade, well, those upgraded packages take up full package space rather then overwrite the old packages, so there is the trade-off.