Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 960M 0 960M 0% /dev
tmpfs 199M 1.2M 198M 1% /run
/dev/sda5 9.4G 7.2G 1.7G 82% /
tmpfs 992M 35M 958M 4% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 992M 0 992M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/loop0 97M 97M 0 100% /snap/core/9436
/dev/loop1 97M 97M 0 100% /snap/core/9665
/dev/sda7 47G 1.4G 43G 4% /home
tmpfs 199M 12K 199M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sda4 164G 143G 21G 88% /media/pratham/7256143A5613FE13
/dev/sda2 147G 50G 97G 34% /media/pratham/9E623FFE623FD9AB


Whenever I install a new software my disk "/" shoots to 99% and the installation fails.
Are my files being installed on the wrong disk? ( on disk "/" instead of /home )
or am I doing something wrong?

Normally, software is installed on /, not /home. In your case, it is installed on the correct disk, and you are not doing anything wrong. The only problem is the small root filesystem - less than 10GB is OK for a default installation, but doesn't have much room for additional software.

/home is for personal data, not applications.

It looks like you asked this question already at https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...ux-4175679159/. Don't create several questions with the same topic. This has great potential for people wasting their time because they don't see that answers were provided already.

I am reporting this to ensure that one of the two threads will be blocked.

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.