Need help with disk space

[lax617]

Hello,

I'm running a virtual machine of CentOS 3 and I am trying to decompress a tar file, but I run out disk space. I created the VM with 80 GB of disk space. When I look at the partititions, (du command) I have /dev/sda2 with a partition of 70GB mounted on /home with < 1% used.

Here comes the n00b question: How do I use the 70GB of space on sda2? I thought working in the /home directory, where sda2 is mounted, would give me access to that disk space, but the tar files fill up the /boot partition.

Confused n00b here. Thx for any help or pointers you can provide.

[nujinini]

lax617! Welcome

It might help if you can post the output of

fdisk -l
df -h

-l is a small L

[lax617]

Hi Nujinini,

Sorry, I wrote du when I meant df. Also, this is a different virtual machine, so I have a 20GB vmdk now. Here's there output of df:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.9G 2.6G 1.2G 70% /
/dev/sda1 46M 9.2M 35M 22% /boot
/dev/sda3 20G 33M 19G 1% /home
none 250M 0 250M 0% /dev/shm

Here's the fdisk:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 6 48163+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 7 515 4088542+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 516 3133 21029085 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 3134 3263 1044225 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 3134 3263 1044193+ 82 Linux swap

[lax617]

nujinini thx for replying, but I see what I was doing wrong now and it was a noobie mistake. I was making a directory to extract the tar files into, but I was creating it in the wrong place!