running out of room on root system

["Paul Campbell" <yowie@austarnet.com.au>]

First post to this list so bear with me

hard drive partitions

hda1    root       50meg
hda2    swap     100meg
hda3    usr        2 gig
hda5    home     2 gig
hda6    fat32        storage for transferred win docs etc

My problem is a lot of files like to go into root directory. Is there a way
to do symbolic linking on directories

eg   at the moment /var is in root directory on hda1 . Is there a way to
move /var to /usr/var on hda5 and not effect all config files looking for
/var

Thanks in advance

Paul Campbell