I'm not knocking Matt Welsh....but I HIGHLY recommend that you keep use
several partitions. I've even gone farther that the recommended aproach, in
that I've determined what uses the most space to further separate my system
for upgradeabilty or running other distributions.
For instance I have the following partitions mounted:
/var/spool/news/....because I use leafnode, which can quickly fill a hard
drive ;-)
/opt
/usr
/usr/lib/
/junk (all that downloaded software from freshmeat.net have to go somewhere)
/cdburn (a 800MB partition for CD mastering)
Most likely you have something tucked away somewhere that can be deleted to
restore free space. If not you may want to take a look at Partition Magic
4.0 which can resize ext2 partitions. You can then take free space from
your /usr partition and add it to the /. I've used this approach several
times (after make a tape backup of course), and it works like a charm. One
thing I did notice is resizing the / partition will screw up LILO, so have a
boot floppy handy (or a bootable CD). All you have to do is rerun LILO
after booting from the floppy.
Rick
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