Solved 3CX Mini PC hard drive

[Mike-2408]

I have installed the Linux 3CX Version 18 on my mini PC

My hard drive size is 250GB but for some reason, now on my 3cx is showing 19.8GB free space.

I just installed my 3CX

How can i use my full space hard drive

 

[ChrisC_3CX]

That should actually be whatever's detected on the OS level, what do you see if you connect to the machine and run:

df -h

 

[Mike-2408]

That should actually be whatever's detected on the OS level, what do you see if you connect to the machine and run:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 790M 8.9M 781M 2% /run
/dev/sda2 23G 1.9G 20G 9% /
tmpfs 3.9G 24K 3.9G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.9G 0 3.9G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sda5 1.9G 5.7M 1.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 199G 61M 189G 1% /home
/dev/sda3 9.2G 1014M 7.7G 12% /var
/dev/sda1 511M 3.3M 508M 1% /boot/efi

 

[ChrisC_3CX]

/dev/sda2 23G 1.9G 20G 9% /

As you can see on line 3, the root filesystem indeed has approximately 20GBs available so that is what is seen in 3CX as well.

 

[Mike-2408]

As you can see on line 3, the root filesystem indeed has approximately 20GBs available so that is what is seen in 3CX as well.

I tried to configure the 3CX more than one time, most probably the space is gone with old installation this mini PC only dedicated to 3CX

How can i removed/delete everything else but keep existing 3cx files

 

[ChrisC_3CX]

I tried to configure the 3CX more than one time, most probably the space is gone with old installation this mini PC only dedicated to 3CX

Without re-installing the OS? Had you used the 3CX ISO? If not I strongly recommend you redeploy 3CX and the OS using our ISO this time: https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/installing-debian-linux-pbx/

How can i removed/delete everything else but keep existing 3cx files

I'm not 100% sure I understand what you mean here, what would you want to delete? If you want to wipe the OS it would be better that you take a backup of 3CX, move it away from the machine, redeploy as mentioned above(using ISO), and restore the backup you took.

EDIT:

While installing the OS with the ISO do make sure that you select the first option when you see the following screen:

 

[Mike-2408]

Without re-installing the OS? Had you used the 3CX ISO? If not I strongly recommend you redeploy 3CX and the OS using our ISO this time: https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/installing-debian-linux-pbx/


I'm not 100% sure I understand what you mean here, what would you want to delete? If you want to wipe the OS it would be better that you take a backup of 3CX, move it away from the machine, redeploy as mentioned above(using ISO), and restore the backup you took.

EDIT:

While installing the OS with the ISO do make sure that you select the first option when you see the following screen:
View attachment 29536

This exactly what i have choose while the installing. i have created a bootable usb with the same steps mentioned here https://www.3cx.com/docs/manual/installing-debian-linux-pbx/

Is it possible to delete the other folders and keep the needed/latest 3cx only and avoid this re installation

I am asking how to delete the below unwanted folders:

/dev/sda5 1.9G 5.7M 1.7G 1% /tmp
/dev/sda6 199G 61M 189G 1% /home
/dev/sda3 9.2G 1014M 7.7G 12% /var
/dev/sda1 511M 3.3M 508M 1% /boot/efi

 

[ChrisC_3CX]

Is it possible to delete the other folders and keep the needed/latest 3cx only and avoid this re installation

If you mean remove the other partitions and then merge them into the main root filesystem then I'm afraid I cannot provide any information or assistance as this would be an OS specific operation, and frankly, I wouldn't even recommend looking into this if you're not sure either. It would be much faster and easier to simply re-install and restore a backup.

If you do want to go down the re-install path and you're absolutely sure that last time you had selected "User Entire Disk" but still ended up with these partitions, I suggest you look into removing them before re-deploying with the ISO though this again would be OS specific something for which we cannot really provide much information or or assist ance.

 

[JohnS_3CX]

Mike did you use this option?



This would cause the home partition to take up the most space.

You should choose the 1st option: All files in one partition (recommended for new users)

 

[Mike-2408]

Yes, i did use that option in my latest installation, I solved the problem by reinstalling the ISO from the beginning and removing all the partitions created earlier now I recovered all the lost desk space. thank you all for your support

 

[ChrisC_3CX]

You're very welcome!

Glad we could help!