DISCLAIMER:
The
post
you
are
about
to
read
is
really
boring
unless
you
are
a
geek
like
me.
You
have
been
warned.
So,
I’ve
been
trying
to
tune
my
Kubuntu
installation
the
best
I
can,
scrounging
what
is
left
of
my
unreliable
mobile
connection.
I
managed
to
actually
finish
doing
apt-get
dist-upgrade
on
it,
but
by
the
time
everything
is
installed
I
came
across
another
problem:
hard
drive
space.
I
initially
setup
my
virtual
machine
to
have
a
4GB
hard
drive.
After
a
full
installation
of
Kubuntu
Koala
Karmic,
I
got
around
600MB
of
free
space
on
it. So,
I
went
ahead
and
did
a
full
upgrade,
after
which
my
free
hard
drive
space
immediately
dropped
to
below
100MB.
Oh
yay!
That
said,
turned
the
VM
off
and
tried
to
edit
its
settings.
I
added
an
extra
gigabyte
to
the
existing
4GB
virtual
hard
drive,
then
booted
into
Kubuntu
again.
Oh
darn…
I
forgot
that
resizing
the
virtual
hard
drive
merely
simulates
an
increase
of
physical
hard
drive
size,
and
to
make
use
of
this
I
had
to
actually
resize
the
darn
partition.
Next,
I
got
my
old
Ubuntu
Gutsy
Gibbon
CD,
which
I
finally
found
after
digging
through
a
pile
of
old
movies
and
stuff.
I
launched
the
live
session,
got
into
GParted,
and
attempted
to
resize
my
root
partition.
Then
another
hurdle:
GParted
could
delete
my
existing
extended
partition
(which
contained
my
swap
partition),
but
when
I
tried
to
resize
my
primary
partition
it
failed.
It
says
something
about
the
superblock
being
corrupt,
whatever
that
means.
So
I
tried
doing
a
workaround:
I
built
my
extended
partition
again,
only
this
time
covering
the
entire
free
space.
I
then
added
a
new
EXT3
partition
and
kept
my
swap
at
a
meager
256MB.
Then
I
tried
to
boot
into
Koala
Karmic
again,
and
voila,
it
booted.
But
this
doesn’t
solve
the
problem
that
Karmic
Koala
keeps
warning
me
about
low
disk
space.
I
can
actually
tell
it
not
to
warn
me
anymore,
but
the
fact
that
I
only
have
120
megs
of
space
in
my
root
partition
bothers
me.
I
wouldn’t
be
able
to
install
pretty
much
anything…
OK,
let’s
try
this
again.
Boot
into
Gutsy
Gibbon,
and
try
to
redo
the
partitioning
(again).
*By
the
way,
I
gotta
tell
you,
booting
a
live
CD
takes
forever!
Using
a
bootable
USB
stick
is
probably
a
better
idea.
Nope.
It
just
won’t
do
it.
I
guess
Gutsy
Gibbon
is
a
bit
old
to
do
its
trick
on
newer
Kubuntu
installations.
I’ll
just
have
to
wait
to
get
that
Kubuntu
installation
DVD…