ENABLE ROOT PARTITION R/W ACCESS WITHOUT PASSWORD

[Sagemta]

4joey1,
With only an 80G HDD is it possible for you to get an external drive? It would save you having to mess with root which is VERY UNSAFE!!!

[swerdna]

A good idea would be to move your home directories into the root partition, unmount the old 1 GB home partition, delete the old 1 Gb partition, expand the root partition to take up the free space. That way the new /home directories can expand normally as you add files, securely accessing any or all available space on the expanded root partition.

You could do everything from inside the running openSUSE operating system except the final expansion of the root partition. You would need to use GParted on a bootable disk to expand the root partition.

You would not have to add or purchase any extra resources/storage.

If you decide to do that, you should take advice on a series of steps to achieve it safely.