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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.
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.
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.)
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