Running out of room in /home

CJ8281

1/14/24, 9:30 PM

I wanted to run Ubuntu on my primary system so I installed a second hard drive, a 500GB. I let the install program do all of the partitioning. I tried to move files off of my Windows 7 drive, but I ran out of space. I went to this website as it seems to be the same thing that my system is doing. I typed df -h into terminal and I got this:

In nano as root I edited the /etc/fstab file and added this line:

/dev/sdb1  /home  ext4  rw,relatime,acl  0  2

I saved it and then restarted. This made my /home directory inaccessible and locked up my computer. After a few tries trying to gain access to /home, I went back in and added # to the beginning of that line and was able gain access to /home again. I used terminal to make the directory Docs in /media/clay/Ubuntu. I can access it, but can't do anything else with it. It tells me that I don't have permission. I have read that I can delete the sdb1 partition and expand the sdb5, but I read that if you do that it makes it harder to update or change distributions, and I'm not sure how to proceed. This is what my /etc/fstab looks like:

It looks like it uses the UUID to identify the drive partitions, but I don't know how to find out what the id of sdb1 is or how to add it and what other information I need add to /etc/fstab to make it accessible.

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user535733

1/14/24, 9:58 PM

"*how to find out what the id of sdb1*": `sudo blkid | grep sdb1`

oldfred

1/15/24, 3:51 AM

You can move /home. To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving Or you can move some data folders in /home to data partition & link folders back to /home in /, so it looks just like data is in /, but really in another partition. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1013677/storing-data-on-second-hdd-mounting & https://askubuntu.com/questions/1058756/installing-all-applications-on-a-ssd-disk-and-putting-all-files-on-hdd-disk

CJ8281

1/22/24, 7:03 AM

@user535733 Thank you for that command. It brought up the id: dev/sdb1: LABEL="Ubuntu" UUID="26227212-cb2c-4700-99b6-0a94345e39ca" BLOCK_SIZE="4096" TYPE="ext4" PARTUUID="8762992f-01" Now to try and figure out what else goes with it in the etc/fstab.

CJ8281

1/22/24, 7:08 AM

@Nmath I didn't set up any partitions, That was all ubuntu. The drive had no partitions when I bought it and installed it.

CJ8281

1/27/24, 2:08 AM

@Nmath, I don't know what to tell you. I do know that sdb is a 500gb and was just installed, sda is a 1 terabyte. sda has been in the computer since 2014. sda has 2 partitions, the rescue partition and the primary partition.

CJ8281

2/8/24, 1:45 AM

@oldfred, Thank you for those links. I was just able gain permissions over the large partition so I am able to move all of my existing items out of home. Now to move the rest off my windows drive.

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