I have been using LMDE 201109 successfully since it was released. Prior to that I was using the previous version, again successfully.
A couple of days ago I began getting an urgent message that / was Full and that to cure the problem I should delete some files. So I deleted some of the applications I rarely use but this was obviously not enough as the message kept appearing. / is 10GB which I thought should be plenty. Indeed GParted reports that I have 5.81GB unused!
My HD is partitioned in the following order: /Boot, /, /Home, Swap.
So, I thought I would be clever and loaded up a LiveCD (in this case Gloria) and shrunk /Home by 20GB intending to expand / by the same amount. Yes, you've guessed it. Because of the way I had partitioned the HD, I could find no way to increase / by any amount.
It was then I must have lost it completely, for I formatted /Home with what was then unallocated; closed down the computer in the appropriate manner and then re-booted, fully expecting things to be 'hunky-dory'. Of course it was a disaster as I first got an error messages:
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Could not update ICEAuthoerity file /home/zed/.IceAuthority
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There is a problem with configuration server usr/libconf2-4 gconf-sanity check-2 exited with Status 256
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The Panel encountered a problem while loading OAIID:Gnome_MintMenu. Do you wish to delete the applet. Delete and Don't delete
I have tried both and it makes no difference.
and finally:
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Nautilus could not create the following folders: /home/zed/.nautilus
The only saving grace I have is that I did backup /Home to a removable usbHD before I became so silly
So, now I seek the good offices of members. Is it possible get a /home partition without doing a complete re-install, please?
EDIT: I have just read the post by DataMan regarding resizing partitions and feel even more foolish <if that is possible>. I hadn't realised that after selecting the partition and choosing Resize that I could drag the partition either to the left or right. I do wish the Menu would suggest that this could be done.