I had a duel boot, with Windows and linux (Suse 9.3). I found i didn't need windows so i deleted the partition. Im a bit short of space on my root drive, but Yast won't let me allocate the space that windows took to the root. Please tell me if there is anyway to allocate that space (about 18 gig) to by root which started with only 10 gig, and is running low. Any help appreciated. Pls keep it simple, im a linux noob.

What is filling up your current / partition? You can format the spare partition and move /home to it thus freeing up space in /

If you're storing a bunch of media files and such, just move them over to your new /home partition.

Make sure you edit fstab accordingly.

Thats a really good idea, ya i also have a lot of music, but vmware takes up space too.

Since I'm a noob, would you mind giving me more step by step instruction on how to do this and what to do for fstab?

Thanks a lot.

Option 1. You can keep your spare partition, format it with ext3, mount it and offload ( copy to dest, delete from source, remount ) maybe your /home or /var - or /usr as you see fit - onto it.

Option 2. Depending on whether the spare partition comes before or after the root partition, you maybe able to use GNU parted to resize it. If you cant do it with parted, you'll have to resort to some partion editor tool such as acronis partition manager or PartitionMagic, maybe. Can't recall if these tool let you do a standalone boot without Windoze.

okay, ill see if parted will work... Hopefully it will because i dont wanna mess up with fstab and all that stuff. Do you have any experience with Parted?