Partitioning After Dual-Boot

[cdr0124]

Hey,

I have dual-booted my laptop with Windows XP and linux. However, I forgot to repartition it prior to installing linux. Now my /dev/sda5 partition is full and I cannot download any data onto linux. I was hoping to find out a good easy way to go about repartitioning linux to do this. Here is the space currently:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 2.3G 2.2G 0 100% /
tmpfs 1001M 0 1001M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 1001M 108K 1001M 1% /var/run
varlock 1001M 0 1001M 0% /var/lock
udev 1001M 164K 1001M 1% /dev
tmpfs 1001M 76K 1001M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 1001M 2.4M 999M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.28-11-generic/volatile

If anyone could help me out, I'd greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

[caf4926]

This makes no sense to me. What we really need is you to boot a live cd and from a su terminal do:

fdisk -l

Post result
Explain what you think you have and what you want.

[cdr0124]

I don't have a live cd. When I did fdisk -l in a terminal nothing happened. The output from my last post was from when I did df -h. I had windows xp on my laptop. I created a cd to install linux. I installed linux. I use linux for research. I tried to download some data from a site called routeviews for this research but I can't because there isn't any space left. I believe I need to repartition things to create space. The /dev/sda partition is where I believe the problem to be. Does this make more sense?

[caf4926]

So you can actually boot to Linux?

Then you must be able to do fdisk -l
But it must be done as su

[cdr0124]

Here's the output:

root@chrodgers-laptop:/home/chrodgers# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x7f697f69

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 27 216846 de Dell Utility
/dev/sda2 * 28 7860 62918572+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 7861 19131 90534307+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 19132 19457 2618595 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 19132 19435 2441848+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 19436 19457 176683+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris

[caf4926]

But you only have a total
/dev/sda5 2.3G 2.2G 0 100% /

And that's it.
You just don't have enough space unless you get rid of sda3 or sda3, whichever is the actual windows partition I am not sure. But you'll want to keep windows, but maybe you can grab some off the other. But you will need to reinstall Linux.

But perhaps you can explain.

[cdr0124]

I'm fine with reinstalling linux if I need to but I want to make sure this doesn't happen again. How do I go about getting rid of linux and partitioning things correctly before reinstalling?

[cdr0124]

About getting rid of sda2 or sda3, how would I do that. Also, do I need both sda5 and sda6 to keep linux or can I get rid of one of those as well?

[caf4926]

First you need to tell us what is on sda2 and sda3

[cdr0124]

I'm not sure how to find that out.