Hello guys,

I would like to increase my "/" filesystem, as you can see, it has 81% occupied, and i would like to decrease the capacity of "/home" and pass it to the /

Is this possible?

MY-SERVER:#df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 3.8G 2.9G 707M 81% /
/dev/sda5 14G 214M 13G 2% /home
/dev/sda1 46M 22M 22M 50% /boot
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm

Or may be the next installations should be installed with another user different than root? this could be done easily changing the owner permissions of the "software" to be installed?

Thanks!

You can use gparted-live-cd to resize sda5(shrink from left) then do the same to it's container (most likely sda3) & enlarge sda2.
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry...e/resizing.htm

If you are logging in as root, then it may be that the folder /root is getting too big. A quick and dirty method is to move the whole of this folder to /home and replace it with a logical link, thus:

cd /
mv /root /home
ln -s /home/root /root

That worked for me once. A danger to logging in as root is that you lose the personal files in your root folder if you update the distribution; this way you don't, since /home/root is unaffected (but is no longer the root folder!).

Just like Peverel said, there are solutions before resizing partitions.

Personally, my favorite is this command:

du -xak /|sort -n|tail -100

it tells you the 100 biggest files or directories in the directory chosen, without crossing over to other filesystems.

Start with the biggest folders and files, then question if you need to remove or move some smaller ones.

You do have a small disk, so next time you install Linux on it, it might be good to have just one big / partition and no /home