Trisquel partition

You can simply fire up Trisquel from the CD in Livemode and use GParted to increase the size of your Trisquel partition.

Mind you that you should always (!) backup important data on your HDD prior doing modifications to the filesystem / partitions.

HTH,
Holger

What is GParted and how can I use it?

GParted is a program from Trisquel repositories which can edit partitions on all harddrives. Install it by typing into a terminal window:

sudo aptitude install gparted


Usage is pretty self-explanatory, just make sure to backup all the important files you have.

One way of dealing with your situation would be to create a new partition in the free space alltogether and mount it under /home. In that case it is good to copy all the files (especially the hidden ones) from the old /home/[username] directory into the new one. If you don't do this, all the settings that you did for the desktop and various programs will be resetted to default.

Or, if you'd like to expand an existing mounted partition, you need to use a live media with gparted. E.g. a Trisquel CD or USB or http://gparted.org/livecd.php

(Note that for now, the XFS filesystem can only be enlarged but not shrunk [1], so if your root is smaller than 10 gigs, you might want to enlarge it too and not just home.)

[1] http://gparted.org/features.php

I have used gparted to enlarge the size of the root partition, but I left the home partition at the same size. Everything works fine now. Thanks everyone.