PathPilot keeps running out of room in the partition

It's not a memory leak, you'll have a fixed swap disk which if your using a SDD you should disable and follow directions on the web to setup linux for SDD use. you'll wear out the drive quickly due to the amounts of writes swapping does, if you haven't already done this that is.

you stated gpartd won't let you resize partiions, did you do this from PP install or from a live-cd? I tried to do from PP while with PP not running and it worked ok.
be sure to select the root partion '/' then right click and resize. increase the space, I went from 32G to 40G as a test. click ok then click the check mark to apply.

what happens when you do that ?
can you post a screen cap of your gparted session to see what you have?

IF I do not reinstall I can not access PathPilot. I cannot save or copy anything in teh root folder.

I only have teh PathPilot USB drive stick to install and it does its own thing and there are no options that I recall. It asks if this is teh drive you want to install on and then you press teh install button.

The installed partitions are very small and it leaves a ton of unused space on teh drive.

The PathPilot install was designed to install on a SSD so I would not think it would do any harm to the SSD (.

It looked like it had plenty of room to do simple mods like edit teh HAL and INI files. But this thing eats up memory like I do M&Ms by teh handfull.

SO NOW back to reinstalling and starting over from scratch again.

(;-)TP

Well, that's not entirely true, you can get into the grub menu and boot into rescue mode. in that mode you're logged in as root and root can always logon.

I'm not at my PP machine but when you boot PP look at the intital boot screen and see if it has a rescue mode, if not you can hit 'E' during the grub screen and modify the boot by changing the LINUX stanza from RO to RW and adding init=/bin/bash at the end. then boot

you'll end up in a bash shell. first thing you can do is free up space so you can boot properly.

but while there do these
df
du -s /
and paste the results

also, there is a live-cd version of gparted , you might want to use that.

PP does use a swap disc and I don't recall any parms to make it behave with a SDD.

smgvbest wrote: PP does use a swap disc and I don't recall any parms to make it behave with a SDD.

It is called swappiness and has to be set to 15 instead of 60, but please do double check, it's been several years since i did that.

thank you
I typed incorrectly though, I meant I don't recall the parms
swappiness is set via the VM setting in sysctl i believe.

operator@tormachpcnc:~$ DF
DF: command not found
operator@tormachpcnc:~$ du-s/
bash: du-s/: No such file or directory
operator@tormachpcnc:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 4027204 4 4027200 1% /dev
tmpfs 809244 1408 807836 1% /run
/dev/sda3 14986712 9256652 4945680 66% /
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
none 5120 0 5120 0% /run/lock
none 4046204 80 4046124 1% /run/shm
none 102400 24 102376 1% /run/user
/dev/sda1 13509128 2129000 10670856 17% /boot
operator@tormachpcnc:~$ du-s/
bash: du-s/: No such file or directory
operator@tormachpcnc:~$

I only have the PathPilot install USB stick.

( TP