fresh install -- almost out of disk space

[Pythzor]

Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xffffffff

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6528 52428568+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 6528 22902 131525748 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 2 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda3 23864 30401 52516454+ 5 Extended
Partition 3 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda4 22909 23857 7622842+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda5 23864 26270 19334196 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 30129 30401 2192841 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 28833 28987 1232248+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 28987 30128 9169920 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 26271 28832 20578304 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order
randymanme@randymanme-desktop:~$

Hello,

This is a fresh install -- the second in less than 24 hours, in fact. With the first one, just for the record, I copied and pasted a Firefox profile from another operating system my first Ultimate Edition -- didn't work. In fact, it left Ffx so badly mangled that it didn't work at all. So I reinstalled rather than have to depend entirely on Konqueror or Chromium.

On sda8 (my Ultimate Edition /) I have 8.75 GiB, of which 8.21 GiB is used, leaving 543.71 MiB unused. On sda9 (my Ultimate Edition /home), I have 19.62 GiB of which 528.81 GiB is used and 19.11 GiB is unused. Presently, I'm getting warnings of low disk space. Do you think / might burst while leaving /home more or less empty? What should I do?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

[2hot6ft2]

On sda8 (my Ultimate Edition /) I have 8.75 GiB, of which 8.21 GiB is used, leaving 543.71 MiB unused. On sda9 (my Ultimate Edition /home), I have 19.62 GiB of which 528.81 GiB is used and 19.11 GiB is unused. Presently, I'm getting warnings of low disk space. Do you think / might burst while leaving /home more or less empty? What should I do?

Any help would be appreciated, thank you.

Welcome to the forum Pythzor,

It sure looks that way. I don't run a separate /home but I would say you should give more room for / . You can use the livedvd to resize them or do another reinstall. If you haven't done much or anything in the way of modifications yet I would do a reinstall since it would be faster and safer than resizing.

By deleting both partitions and creating new ones the sizes you want them to be it's a lot faster.

If you choose to resize make sure you right click on the swap partition and select swapoff in order to be able to make changes, as well as right clicking and selecting unmount if anything else is still locked.