[ale] mint 13 vm running out of storage space

Michael B. Trausch mbt at naunetcorp.com
Mon Oct 14 10:18:59 EDT 2013


On 10/13/2013 09:55 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) wrote:
> 35) Execute swapon -s to determine that the swap partition is active.
>  You can also run system monitor and click resources.  You should see
> a primary boot partition with lots of free space and an active 4 GiB
> swap partition. 

This set of instructions is relatively useless.  It shouldn't take more
than five or six steps to accomplish a task in the average case, and
holy crap---35!  No, 35 + 9 = 46!  Wow.

Your procedure is extremely tied to your situation.  if you want to
share your knowledge, the exact process is less useful than the
information that you learned from following it.  Looks like the lesson
is to use LVM.  :-)

    --- Mike

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