DSL Embedded :: Size of partitions



Hello,
  I have recently installed DSL and am trying to download and load up some extensions and am having some problems.  The problem is that I'm running out of disk space.  

 It's funny because I have a 1gb usb memory key, but DSL doesn't seem to be utilizing it.  For example the directory that is filling up /home is only alloted 93.4 mb.  Can this be changed??
Thanks,

Chris.
/home is allocated on the ramdisk (which is based upon your physical ram + swap size) by default.

Try to use the extensions other than .dsl's, esp. uci (and unc if you're using unionfs) for less resource consumption.
^thatstherule^,
  Thanks for the reply.  The .dsl that I'm trying to use right now is gcc1.dsl and everytime it tries to load my whole dsl system locks up.  I put a remount line I found in my /opt/bootlocal.sh script to enlarge /home/dsl to 512M, but this didn't help.  Is my swap space filling up?  I have just gotten it to load, but now I'm trying to run simple shell commands and everything is locking up and the desktop looks all screwed up.  Any suggestions.
Thanks,

Chris.
You could use free -m to check your memory status.

I'd suggest to either: get more ram, or increase your swap.  Enlarging /home/dsl (by remounting it to wherever) does not help since that dsl is not installed to there...
^thatstherule^,
  I believe I have 512M of ram in the pc I'm using.  I was just trying to get gcc running to try to install Cisco Vpn Client for work.  How would I go about increasing my swap size?
Thanks again,

Chris.
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