Why do you have this problem? On my Debian system I have almost 3GB

stuff installed and my root is only 161 MB ... I've split off /usr and /var as you have but I still have /boot as part of /.

Check what's hogging your space ... I just checked a rh7.3 system that I have access to and it's only using 216 MB for / despite tonnes of software being installed (3.8 GB /usr).

One culprit might be extra kernels that are installed. /lib/modules can get pretty huge with a few 2.4 kernels installed. Recent Debian kernels have a /lib/modules/2.4.x/ directory of around 25 MB each.

Another problem might be /tmp or /root

If there really is a legitimage reason for all that space being used

of then

I'd just pop in another disk and copy the root partition over to it.

I am not sure what is causing this problem, when I erased a bunch of log and temp files stored under / I did manage to free up some space. If I was to add another hard drive, would it be a problem to get it working with the RAID5 the other drives are on? I would rather take some free space (if possible) from somewhere else and add it to /. Sid [root at root]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda6 372M 95M 258M 27% / /dev/hda1 45M 8.7M 34M 21% /boot /dev/md0 147G 9.3G 130G 7% /home none 283M 0 282M 0% /dev/shm /dev/hda3 8.6G 1.7G 6.5G 21% /usr /dev/hda7 26G 1.7G 23G 7% /var -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml