Gparted
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You just need to create unallocated space somewhere, don't bother with doing it via fdisk etc
I tried a gparted live usb, and also gparted on a linux mint live disk.
You have to move the partitions around. And they can't be mounted so its best to boot into something like Ubuntu on a USB key and use partitionmanager to modify the partitions then reboot
Yes this seems to be the problem. I have a 1tb NVME strictly for Debian and it keeps saying the root is full:
Sudo df-h (thanks to someone out the bl discord):
[sudo] password for debiansignum:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 16G 0 16G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.2G 1.7M 3.2G 1% /run
/dev/nvme1n1p2 28G 25G 1.7G 94% /
tmpfs 16G 7.5M 16G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 12K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
efivarfs 128K 32K 92K 26% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
/dev/nvme1n1p4 859G 22G 793G 3% /home
/dev/nvme1n1p1 511M 5.9M 506M 2% /boot/efi
tmpfs 3.2G 120K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
It's not even full now but I freed up some space: seems to be that /dev/nvme1n1p2 which I'm assuming is root.
I took 30gb out of that massive 793gb home partition, tried leaving it unallocated, formatting to ext4, etc etc - I simply can not allocate that to to the pesky /dev/nvme1n1p2. Why?! Is that because the next partition is swap, then home, then the unallocated that I assume is at the end of the hard drive or something?
Partitioning is such a bitch that it's worth learning and using LVM just to take the pain out of it. Extending a partition is easy with LVM, and so is making CoW snapshots, which is very nice to have. It smokes the backup functionality of Winblows by all measures - speed, drive space, and time
You know, I read so many comments about LVM when installing debian, but I thought I'd play it safe and just stick to the defaults - bad idea.
@Buzz Lightbeer - would you be willing to jump on debian and assist with gparted?
Or shall I just reinstall debian with LVM? How do I image/backup my w11 (seperate) nvme, as I can not be bothered with the bootloader corrupting again!
Thanks everyone.