First of all: I'm just a beginning Linux-User ;-)I've set up a server with OpenVZ support. I wrote a backup script that's dumping the vz containers from time to time. But some containers are not backed up due to insufficient disk space. So I ran df -h which gives me this:Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on240f0d7c-195b-461b-87e3-0d0dfc33c3d4                      5.0G  4.4G  362M  93% /tmpfs                 2.0G     0  2.0G   0% /lib/init/rwudev                   10M  660K  9.4M   7% /devtmpfs                 2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% /dev/shm/dev/sda3             270G   32G  225G  13% /vz/dev/sda4             184G  188M  174G   1% /srvSo it seems the problem is the root partition (?) which has only 362M available. As /srv has 174G which is may too much I want to give some disk space from there to root. Can someone explain how I can do this and maybe explain it a little bit. I don't really know much about this mounting/partioning on Linux (yet).Thanks!
Need help with re-partitioning
linux;mount;disk usage
The simplest soulution is to create a backup of /srv. This is only 188MB it should fit in /srv.tar.tar cvf /srv.tar.bz2 --auto-compress /srvThen delete the sda4 partition and create 2 others. You can use cfdisk /dev/sda or any other partitioning software.sda4 extended partition (you can only have 4 otherwise)sda5 for /srvsda6 for the backupsCreate filesystems on sda5 and sda6 mount sda5 to /srv and restore the backup.mke2fs -j /dev/sda5 # For ext3 filesystemsmke2fs -j /dev/sda6 #  use mkfs.<fsname> for any othermount /dev/sda5 /srvcd /srvtar xvf /srv.tar.bz2 --preserve-permissionsMount /sda6 to the directory where you want the backups stored. For example:mount /dev/sda6 /var/lib/backupsDon't forget to modify /etc/fstab. Add the new backups filesystem and change the device for /srv./dev/sda5 /srv             ext3 defaults 0 0/dev/sda6 /var/lib/backups ext3 defaults 0 0In the future it would be a good idea to use LVM. That makes this sort of problems easier.