hi,

this my diskspace

[root@syweb root]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda5 505605 429042 50459 90% /
/dev/hda1 101089 9379 86491 10% /boot
/dev/hda3 7408292 139752 6892220 2% /home
none 511464 0 511464 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda2 20248308 3505668 15714080 19% /usr
/dev/hda6 1027768 160436 815124 17% /var
//Sy/MIS 134205440 76578816 57626624 58% /mnt/MIS

from there, u will know that, my / is almost used up until 90%..what should i do?? i scared i will be running out of diskspace...
pls..comment.......


thanks...

Don't be scared, just be aware of the problem. When you download stuff it will be in /home. Most stuff you install will be in /usr. The logs are in /var. So there shouldn't be a whole lot of stuff going into /. But I do wonder how you decided on your paritioning scheme. Only 500K in / but over 7G in /home and over 20G in /usr seems a little out of whack. If you just set this up.... well never mind.

I agree 100% with ringwraith - your partitioning scheme seems unbalanced. In general, /home should be pretty big, as well as / and /usr. Keep in mind that / will contain any directories that you don't explicitly define, so a 500K partition is definitely on the low side. -- J.W.

what is normally goes to /, and now, how am i going to adjust the size of my / ???

All you really need to define is a swap partition and a / partition to install Linux. Everything will be created under / unless you otherwise explicity define it. For example, the /boot partition could be assigned to its own partition, but if not, it will simply be created under / (just like all other partitions, including /usr, /home, /var, /tmp, /root, and so on). From a practical matter, it usually makes sense to assign /home to its own partition (because that is where all the user data will live). Partitioning schemes are basically a matter of personal preference - ask 50 people how to "best" partition a disk and you likely will get 50 different answers. -- J.W.

What are your partition types? ext2?

There is a tool called parted out there, but the best thing I would recommend is (if possible) take the drive to a machine with partition magic on it and resize them there. Short of starting from scratch (and losing any configuration customizations you've made) that's what I would do.

fyi, the way I partition my drive is as follows:
/ - at least 2 gigs (currently 5)
/boot - 50 or so megs
/swap - 128-512 megs
/usr/local - 128 megs (not sure it's really needed - not a bad idea to keep some custom-installed apps if/when another clean install is required)
/home - everything else

Some folks setup a separate /var partition, but not me. If you decide to, give it enough that all your logfiles won't fill it. I'm guessing 500 megs should do it. (But don't take my word for it. Check out some other threads.)

Garry