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[Matsobane <question78407@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Guys,

I have partitioned 80gig hard drive into 45.9gig(ext) and called it /dev/sda1 and 22.9gig(ext) called it /dev/sda5, and the rest of space as swap area.

The first partition(45.9gig) was meant for Linux to run on and the other for future installation Windows XP. But it seems that things have been swapped around, the system looks like is running on the 22.9gig.

When I install other softwares and store data, they all get stored on this 22.9gig partition. And I would like things to be the other way around because I am running out of space.

When I go to System>Administration>System Monitor>File Systems, this is what appears:
===================================================
Device             Directory        Type     Total          Free         Available     Used
===================================================
/dev/sda5        /                       ext       22.9GiB     6.3GiB     5.1GiB         16.6Gib   76%
/dev/sda1        /boot                 ext       45.9GiB    45.7GiB   43.3GiB        205.5MiB 0%

/boot seems to be empty, when navigate to this directory, i find other system files (e.g. abi-2.6.28-11-generic.txt,etc).
Can I store my data in this directory?
How can make sure that future software installations use this directory?


Please help.

Matsobane
Centurion, Pretoria. South Africa.

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