Reconfiguring partitions on Linux Server

I just received a dedicated server last week and I'm thinking something is wrong with the way they set up my drives. The server came with 2 80GB drives and I was wonder if anyone had any advice for redoing the partiitons to make the most sense.

As of now I can't add a site because /var/ is so low and I have a database to import that will completely fill it up.)

In addition, the fdisk -l shows that one of the drives is a Windows 95 LBA partition (haven't seen one of those in a long time on any computer, let alone a Linux box.

Could anyone give me any advice on how to go about getting this system to where I can get the most out of it with as little downtime as possible. One thing I would especially like to do is to make /tmp use RAM if that's possible (and something that would be good to do) before using the hard disk (I have 2 GB of RAM in the server)

I'd also like to get /var and /home on the same hard disk and use /backup on the other hard disk so that if one drive goes down, we don't anything other than time (I ftp backup once a week but I like daily mySQL backups to the backup drive.)

Based on what I've seen others post, here's what I have:

df command

Code: 
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6               505604    199944    279556  42% /
/dev/hda1               101086      8516     87351   9% /boot
/dev/hdb1             72975932   5253852  64015084   8% /home
none                   1025980         0   1025980   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hda7               256666     84729    158685  35% /tmp
/dev/hda3              5036316   1421636   3358848  30% /usr
/dev/hda8               256666    192080     51334  79% /var
/dev/hda2              5036316     32828   4747656   1% /var/tmp
fdisk -l /dev/hda

Code: 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1        13    104391   83  Linux
/dev/hda2            14       650   5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/hda3           651      1287   5116702+  83  Linux
/dev/hda4          1288     10011  70075530    f  Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5          1288      1606   2562336   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6          1607      1671    522081   83  Linux
/dev/hda7          1672      1704    265041   83  Linux
/dev/hda8          1705      1737    265041   83  Linux
fdisk -l /dev/hdb

Code: 
   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hdb1   *         1      9230  74139943+  83  Linux
/etc/fstab file

Code: 
LABEL=/                 /                       ext3    defaults        1 1
LABEL=/boot             /boot                   ext3    defaults        1 2
none                    /dev/pts                devpts  gid=5,mode=620  0 0
LABEL=/home             /home                   ext3    defaults,usrquota
 1 2
none                    /proc                   proc    defaults        0 0
none                    /dev/shm                tmpfs   defaults        0 0
LABEL=/tmp              /tmp                    ext3    defaults        1 2
LABEL=/usr              /usr                    ext3    defaults,usrquota
 1 2
LABEL=/var              /var                    ext3    defaults,usrquota
 1 2
LABEL=/var/tmp          /var/tmp                ext3    defaults        1 2
/dev/hda5               swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
Obviously if there's any other information that someone needs from me to give good advice, let me know and I'll provide it.

 

 

 

 

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