I'm not very well versed with partitioning disk but I'm faced with a problem which I think this will fix. I have two hard drives hda1 hda5. hda1 is 6g and hda5 is 15 g When I insalled the system inititally I did not pay too much attentionto what I was doing and my /home partition is full. How do I utilize this free space on the hda5 since its is 70% free.

Thanks

The quickest and easiest (though maybe not the cleanest) way is to copy the largest directory(ies) to the other partition and symlink them. Be careful where you copy these directories and what permissions/ownerships they have.

More detail:

Mount your /dev/hda5 as something like /mnt

Do the cp mentioned in prior post from /home to /mnt. Verify the directory structures are the same (except of course the top level).

umount /home (you may need to kill off running users/processes that are busing this out - use fuser or lsof to find these).

umount /mnt

Modify /etc/fstab (always save a copy first) so that /dev/hda5 is now mounted as /home instead of your original filesystem.

Run mount /home. If the fstab entry is correct it will do this.

Wait a week or so to reclaim your original /home mount /dev/hd??

just clarifying this.
you wrote you have 2 disk but you just mentioned one hda, hda1 and hda5 are just partitions of the same disk as hda1 id the frist partition on the disk and hda5 is a logical space on a extended partition.

now hands on

for the copy I think it is better to use "-a" switch of cp it is archive and it copies all from the directory you give it, this include subdirs, permissions, and symlynks. IMPORTANT this partion must not be formated with FAT32 or NTFS.
since you said you 70% space left that meens you have some info on hda5 so you have 2 options:

1 backup / discard that info to move your home there
- as root and in runlevel 1 edit /etc/fstab and add this some where in the file:
/dev/hda5 /home/"YOURHOME" "FSTYPE / AUTO(if you don'tknow)" defaults 0 0
2 move your home there and change your home in /etc/passwd
-as root and in runlevel 1 edit /etc/passwd and change the line corrisponding to your user:
YOURUSER:x:something:something::/home/clamav:something
YOURUSER:x:something:something::/THE_DIRECTORY_WHERE_HDA5_IS_MOUNTED:something

Good luck

I have numerous times reorganized my partitions so maybe I can help... in the example I move /home to /usr (I suppose your hda1 is / and hda5 is /usr ?). NOTE the -a switch for "cp" is required, it makes sure symbolic links etc. work correctly even in the new place.

su

# First create a new homedir
mkdir /usr/home

# Copy all files from /home to the new place
cp -a /home/* /usr/home/

# Move old home out of the way
mv /home /oldhome

# Link new homedir to /home
ln -s /usr/home /home

That should do it. "cp -a" has newer let me down, and God knows I've used it a lot