[l0f33t]

Hello,

I'm somewhat new to linux. I had no idea that when I installed linux mandrake that it would take my 20gig drive and disect it into 2 disimilar chunks.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 5.3G 1.5G 3.6G 29% /
/dev/hda6 14G 86M 14G 1% /home

Couple questions.
1> Why does it do this and 2> is there a way for me to give hda1 about 5 more gigs without any trouble.

But this is linux, so it can't be that easy to do.

Thanks,

[lynch]

You can use the Diskdrak utility to resize partitions.Go to Mandrake Control Center>Mount Points>DiskDrak.
Having / and /home on seperate partitions is a good practice in case you have to reinstall.Why do you want / to be bigger?You have 3.6GB free.Thats a lot of extra programs.
You might consider resizing /home to make it smaller (if you plan to be the only user on that system) and using the new free space to create a /usr partition.
HTH
lynch

[l0f33t]

No real good reason to do this Lynch. Just seems strange that one partition is so small in comparison to the other. Thats all. I guess I'll just leave it the way it is for now.
Does linux come with a defag tool of some sort like windows?

Thanks,

[lynch]

Nah.No need to defrag Linux filesystems.Just filesystem checking(fsck)
lynch

[l0f33t]

Thanks for the reply Lynch. Appreciate it.