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After installing some operating system updates my root partition is full. I'm a new user of UBUNTU so I'm sure this is an easy fix.

user425785
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    possible duplicate of [Root drive is running out of disk space. How can I free up space?](http://askubuntu.com/questions/57994/root-drive-is-running-out-of-disk-space-how-can-i-free-up-space) – Pilot6 Jul 02 '15 at 13:33
  • ... or is that /boot ? – Hannu Jul 02 '15 at 20:31

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First find the directory that has used most of your hard disk space by running # du -sh /*.

Let assume it is /var dir.

Now you could add additional hard disk & create a brand new partition on it by running # fdisk /dev/sdb (here it is assumed the newly connected hard disk is /dev/sdb)

Let assume the created partition is /dev/sdb1 and it is formated with ext4 filesystem.

Now, let the system /var dir's mount point is to be that partition

  • edit the /etc/fstab with your favorite editor (nano or vi)
  • add the following and save it and reboot to see the effected changes
  • /dev/sdb1 /var ext4 default 0 0
krs4keshara
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