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Skinny Santa

So I finally got my netbook and after setting it up installed the Netbook edition of Ubuntu using a flash drive and an IMG file. Everything seemed to be okay and all my programs ran but now whenever I try to dowload anythng it gives me a message about not having harddrive space on disk / . I checked and both my harddrives have plenty of space on them. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance for any help.
 
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hylian said:
Did you make it a partition? If so did you make sure your partition is set for a large enough size?
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This. Also, depending on how much ram you have (1GB+) you may find it useful to turn off the swap file, especially if it has a SSD.
 
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Well it looks like the partition issue is what it is. I can see the other drives but I guess the partition it created for itself only has enough room for the OS. The question now is can I change partition size without un and reinstalling the entire thing?
 
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Shakey said:
Boot to the USB disk you made, and it should have a utility to resize partitions on it.
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The utility is called gparted and there shouldn't be any need to use the USB disk, it should be part of the Ubuntu install. I'm pretty sure it does non-destructive re-partitioning, so it should be able to set things right.
 
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