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Phillip J Fry
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Funny thing happened when I installed Debian ....

Well, my dad was finally able to burn me a copy of an old version ,3.6.25 or something like that, of Debian. I first installed it last night without networking cause I had to wait a little later to use the cable. But when it came time to create a new partition during the installation, I decided to create a separate /home directory. then when I was finally able to reinstall it with networking, I erased everything but the new home partition.  

The thing is I told Debian to create a new root partition on the existing one, but now after-wards, I only have 10 GB’s as total partition memory. What's even more bizarre is that their is a 109 GB mountable partition.  

I used disk utility to see what my system partition's looked like and this is what it showed me:
--------- --------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------
10.0 GB Ext 3| 1.0 GB              |_______________ EXTENDED 110.GB_______________
_____ _______|  swap                |109.GB EXT 3___________________________  

And here's the mount points for each of them:

10.0GB mounted at /  
/dev/sda1
1.0 GB  
/dev/sda5
Extended 110.GB no mount
/dev/sda2
and the 109.GB Ext 3
/media/ ---some strange label----

I'm not if I screwed up big time or I did caused a weird anomaly that only yours truly would’ve done and I don't have the energy to reinstall Debian and reinstall the programs that took for hours to relocate... so ......

Is there anything I could do with Disk Utility to fix this problem ? Please tell me I don't have to reinstall Debian again please Sad

06-06-2012 02:16 AM
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RE: Funny thing happened when I installed Debian ....

/dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 are your primary partitions, not their mountpoints. These seem to be / and swap (no mountpoint)
/dev/sda5 is an extended partition, which, by convention, is only a container for logical drives, e.g. /dev/sda6.
You can only mount the latter.
All drives get a place in the /media/ folder nut that's not their mountpoint either.
You'll have to create a mountpoint for those 109 GB ...

This post was last modified: 06-09-2012 08:29 PM by Shnoing.

06-09-2012 08:27 PM
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Phillip J Fry
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RE: Funny thing happened when I installed Debian ....

Then the /dev /sda2 should be my root point as well if it's not going to be used for anything, that's like wasting 90 GB's of HDD space Sad I only got 10 GB's for the root and have to store everything else on the /media/ drive. I hate having only 10 GB's for programs and root files. It's done to 3.46 GB's at the moment (dev/sda1) but it's still running pretty good at the moment.

06-09-2012 08:56 PM
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RE: Funny thing happened when I installed Debian ....

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I told Debian to create a new root partition on the existing one

from that I take that you had the size of your partitions already pre-defined, so Debian did what you told it to do.
You cannot re-size partitions without losing the data.
If you want a bigger / partition, get a mobile HDD, move all yout data onto there, unplug it and re-install with other partition sizes. That means you'll have to start anew.

06-10-2012 06:19 PM
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Phillip J Fry
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RE: Funny thing happened when I installed Debian ....

ah the hell with it. I'll just keep it as it is. if I start to run way low of memory on my root partition I'll just remove more or less programs :/

06-11-2012 12:10 AM
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