Space running out in Suse Linux 9.1

[cheetahman]

I have about 66mb left on my suse linux partition and i was wondering if i could use space on my other partion or are there any files i could delete to increase space.

[hard candy]

You can automount any other partition you wish located on the local machine and on the other side of the world and use it for storage, /home. I wouldn't put the /boot in Japan though, it may be a long bootup time. :)

Or you can take advantage of some good sales now and get another drive. The 60GB HD's can be found for $30 new and a lot less on ebay used.

[TheSpeedoBeast]

And check any folders that have "tmp" in them. Especially /tmp; can safely delete the files in there. Try to figure out where all of the space is being used up on your drive, also.

[cheetahman]

I Have a Externel Maxtor 120GB Hard Drive could i mount that

[madcompnerd]

I'd recommend moving some of your larger personal files onto the external drive, and if /home is a seperate partition from / then you may wanna do a backup and resize the two to increase the / partition a little bit.

[cheetahman]

Originally posted by hard candy
You can automount any other partition you wish located on the local machine and on the other side of the world and use it for storage, /home. I wouldn't put the /boot in Japan though, it may be a long bootup time. :)

Or you can take advantage of some good sales now and get another drive. The 60GB HD's can be found for $30 new and a lot less on ebay used.

I have another patition which is 1GB could i intergrate that into the main partition here is my fstab so it will make more sense as you can see it dual boots with windows xp home and should i get rid of that bank line in the fstab.

/dev/hda7 / reiserfs acl,user_xattr 1 1
/dev/hda2 /windows/C ntfs ro,users,gid=users,umask=0002,nls=utf8 0 0
/dev/hda6 swap swap pri=42 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts mode=0620,gid=5 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
usbfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs noauto 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrecorder /media/cdrecorder subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0

/dev/fd0 /media/floppy subfs fs=floppyfss,procuid,nodev,nosuid,sync 0 0
/dev/hda5 /mount/dev/hda5/mnt/1GB_native reiserfs auto,acl,user_xattr 1 2
/dev/cdrom /media/cdrom subfs fs=cdfss,ro,procuid,nosuid,nodev,exec,iocharset=ut f8 0 0

[deathadder]

I believe you can use GNU Parted, link (http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/) to resize your partition, if its next to your root partition, so your patition table would look something similiar to:

/dev/hda1 = /
/dev/hda2 = gig free
/dev/hda3 = /home
etc

However I doubt you'll be able to use it if your / is at the begining of the drive and your gig partition is at the end of the drive. After you've updated your partition table you'll have to edit your fstab.

[EDIT]
Looking at your fstab it looks like your not going to have to worry about the position of the partition. Just make sure you back-up your data, Windows and Linux before playing around with the partition table.

[cheetahman]

i can't resize it but i am making my Maxtor 120GB External Hard Drive a linux harddrive with ext3 through yast so i can update kde