Root running out of space

Can you give the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; echo; dpkg -l | grep linux-image-2

What is output ?

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.10
Release: 10.10
Codename: maverick
Linux ubuntu 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

ii linux-image-2.6.35-22-generic 2.6.35-22.33 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.35 on x86/x86_64

ok no chance of saving space here. You only have one kernel which is the MINIMUM. You can remove openoffice to save 300Mb. You can also clear out temporary internet caches in yourbrowser to save space (assuming you DON'T have a separate /home partition).

You can remove openoffice with:

sudo apt-get --purge remove openoffice*

and you will free up a LOT of space (openoffice is massive). You can also remove evolution if you wish but don't remove evolution-data-server-common as it is a (confusing) dependency of gnome-panel.

Removing other apps you don't use can also save space. Clearing caches will be a great way though as they can get big. Also running:

sudo apt-get clean

Can save tonnes of space if you have never ran it.

Also installing localepurge can save some space

I have plenty of space on my hardrive. I see no need for me to delete some programs. I need to find a way of increasing the size of my partition. How can i increase my partition?

Usiya: to increase your partition size, you have to decrease the size of others. You can use Gparted to do this, but note that resizing partitions should not be done unless you have your data backed up. It can go wrong.

oh, also, gparted should be run from a liveCd, as you cannot alter mounted partitions, such as your / partition, which needs to be mounted to run your OS.

you can also remove old kernels and clear web cache if you need space. You can also remove unused apps (especially gimp and evolution if you don't use them)

Please post result of following command
   cd /var/cache; df -h .; du -s * | sort -n