first I RAN OUT OF DISK SPACE on my root partion
this it is my partition
hda1 windows
hda2 linux /
hda3 linux /boot
hda5 swap sw
/hda6 ntfs drive


what can i do to increase my hard drive space on "linux /"
i am comfortable deleting my hda6
whats the prosses i need to take? what program?with out loosing any data on my root drive?


2nd part

how do i mount a windows share in my fstab auto matically?

i tried putting
//SCOTT/C /mnt/network/scottc smbfs guest 0 0
and it didn't work!

but
mount -t smbfs //SCOTT/C /mnt/network/scottc -o guest
does work!

you didn't post the filesystem you are trying to resize. There will be different tools and procedures based on the filesystem. I'm fairly sure reiser can be resized, but I don't know if your using it. Many will probably say to blow it all away and start over.

ext3 for the root