Yesterday, a message poped up in Debian, saying that my root partition is full (0 MB free) after I copied a new software under /opt. So I moved the folder back to another partition to temporarily fix the issue.
I freed some space from /dev/nvme0n1p9 using a Debian installation USB, and now try to extend the root partition using this freed space.
The bios of my HP laptop does not have a "legacy" boot option, so I cannot use a bootable GParted USB stick to increase the size of the root partition.
I search a bit and it appears that extending the root partition is tricky.
I would like to confirm a few things:
- Does extending the root partition mean pushing partitions located after this one further on the disk, or can I use the unallocated space at the end of the disk and have a root partition split in two?
- Can I just move these partitions around without consequences?
- In my case, how would you sort this out, if it's even possible?
- If it's not, am I doomed to reinstall the OS?
- Can I bypass this limit by installing new applications outside of this root partition?
OS: GNU/Linux Debian 11 (bullseye)
Thank you.
- Edit - Details of root partition usage
Following comment from @oldfred, here is the biggest folders of the root partition.
The biggest usage is for texlive but I don't want to uninstall it, if possible.
