I am relatively new to linux, but am working on a remote server. It says i have a quota, and shows the following

 Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace /dev/sda7 4756320* 4194304 5242880 02:51 72897 0 0 /dev/sda8 48 41943040 52428800 88 0 0

This seems to me that sda7 is full, but sda8 is not. How can i switch to sda8? I tried cd /dev/sda8, but it says: Not a directory.

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First check if you already have a mount created for this by running df -h. If not then continue

You cannot change directories because it is not a directory. /dev/sd* is simply the representation of SCSI partitions on your storage device.

Before you can use this you need to do the following if this partition has not had a filesystem created for it. This assumes you are wanting to access this partition to store other data on rather than resizing current partition

mkfs.ext4 -L /dev/sda8
mkdir /mnt/*directory*
mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/*directory*

This makes your partition usable by creating a filesystem for it and then mounting it so you are now able to cd into the /mnt directory you created.

If you want to reallocate your system partition that will need to be done on a live USB or CD as you should not modify the partition you are currently running on.

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