Hi thanks for the reply, i did df from the shell and it came back with this:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs 695716 532132 128244 81% /
/dev/sda1 695716 532132 128244 81% /
none 695716 532132 128244 81% /
tmpfs 514084 20 514064 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 131072 28 131044 1% /tmp
/dev/sdb1 15512328 335624 14388720 3% /home
/dev/sda1 3161695 2896624 265071 92% /ro
That's all of the information it gave me. In the disk utility out of the 2 spaces it shows, 1 is just "/" which is the system memory where software is installed and the other is "/home" where files are stored, the "/home" section has lots of space free but the "/" system memory section is full and I have only installed 2 or 3 small pieces of software and I have no other files stored anywhere, I have a USB Hard Drive for all of my files so they are taking up no space.
If possible I would like to remove allocated space from "/home" (since I won't be using it) and add it to "/" so that I can install more software.
Thanks for any help you can give.
EDIT: After looking around through the files I have found that the Laptop contains 3 file systems, "/", "/ro" and "/home". It seems the Laptop uses both "/" and "/ro" as combined storage for system files and software and uses "/home" as storage for files so would it just be a case of removing some software (to make space), installing some partition managing software (gparted I think) and resizing the partitions to remove space from "/home" and add that space to "/" or "/ro"?
Edited by sid18, 01 January 2009 - 04:16 PM.