[SLUG] Recover a full / partition

[Denovo Systems]

I am a SCO UNIX user but recently decided to familiarise and used RedHat. I currently cannot access the desktop of Redhat 8.0 Professional.  I loaded Linux taking all the load default settings.  I did this because I hope to deploy RedHat as a viable alternative to my customers all of which are remote sites. My df command on RedHat looks as follows Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5               505605    482333         0 100% / /dev/hda1               101089     14261     81609  15% /boot /dev/hda3              4569856    269648   4068072   7% /home none                    123664         0    123664   0% /dev/shm /dev/hda2             12514084   1576888  10301424  14% /usr /dev/hda6              1027768     60712    914848   7% /var I have contacted RedHat support and they advise me that the / partitions should be established at 2GB and the default load does not set / at that. I can telnet to the Linux box from a Unix box and work successfully.  I can't get past a grub screen with hieroglyphics on the RedHat console. The grub screen is showing two possible selections which again are hieroglyphics, anyway which ever I select I end up in a boot routine loop. After the boot routine the system does not display the Gnome desktop, it displays the standard text based login, but appears to go into a loop, whether I type in a login and password or not.  That loop takes me to the grub screen. RedHat support have told me to reload Linux and manually set the / partition to 2 gigabytes.  Under SCO can recover from a full root filesystem simply by removing files.  Under RedHat we remove files but we don't seem to get the space back.  We still show 100% (see above df) in / Why doesn't file removal recover workspace. Can anyone offer me a routine or solution to this problem.