UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi all

Is there a way to allocate more space to a partition? For example my /home is almost full , at 96% so can I move memory from lets say / to /home?

df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 6190692 2571688 3304532 44% /
/dev/sda2 101105 16715 79169 18% /boot
none 1037368 0 1037368 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda8 56878816 51388472 2601056 96% /home
/dev/sda7 1035660 39608 943444 5% /tmp
/dev/sda5 4127076 2818712 1098720 72% /var

I dont need much just enough to keep me under or at 90%


Thanks!

i) backup & repartition
ii) backup, repartition and use LVM next time (use google to find out)
iii) relocate some data to some other partition, use symbolic links to keep your directory hierachy unchanged

Even better - add quotas on the /home filesystem