Sarah Johnson <sarah-johnson-1...@list.ru> writes: > Hi, > I ran out of root partition disk space and can't install or remove any more > packages or even login gui window manager anymore > > i spent few good hours researching for solutions and found that i can resize > root and home partitions using resize2fs and lvresize tools but they are > not even installed on my system > > so is it safe to resize debian root and other partitions using windows > machine partitioning tool ? > knowing that my debian installation is on a USB stick
No. MS tools don't understand Linux filesystems. By any chance is your /var/cache/apt/archives/ on your root partition? If so, you can remove all the .deb files from that directory to free up some space so you can install some repartitioning tools.
