Managing disk space

Hello Mac gurus!
I'm wondering if there is any way for me to manage the disk space taken up by different user accounts on the same laptop. My laptop has two user folders on it. One of them, the one I use most often, has only 100MB left of space. The other, which I use less frequently but which I need to have on the machine, has 25GB of space available.
Is there a way to transfer to my main user folder's allocation the disk space that my laptop is allocating to this second, less-frequently-used user folder?
Many thanks to anyone who can help me! I appreciate it...

I do think FileVault is probably the problem. I don't like it in general, and I suspected it here because a FileVault user account actually IS inside a separate volume - a password-encrypted disk sparse-image which is normally invisible because it is in /Users/.username/ , a hidden folder. It sounds like that disk-image volume is out of space.
The size of the FileVault sparse-image is normally set to the size of the entire disk when created, so running out of space doesn't usually happen unless the image file gets corrupted. However if the FileVault account was migrated into your present computer from an earlier computer with a smaller disk, it doesn't get updated and won't take advantage of the increased disk space. Had you done this?
Regardless, the goal now should be to free up enough space to turn off FileVault. How big is your HD, and how big are your two user accounts? Is the second account also FileVault protected?

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제품 : RMAN
작성날짜 : 2002-12-09
RMAN9I HOW TO RESTORE ARCHIVE LOGS WITH LIMITED DISK SPACE
==========================================================
PURPOSE
이 자료는 Oracle 9.2 이상의 RMAN에서 사용 가능한 MAXSIZE 기능에 대하여
설명할 것이다.
How to restore archive logs with limited disk space
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