One of our servers has a 20gb / partition and it is getting full. Is there any safe way to take some space from the 2TB /home partition and allocate it to the / partition without losing data?
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1You have to provide more information. Are you using LVM for / and /home filesystem? If yes this logical volume are on the same volume groups? Are you using xfs(you can't shrink it) or ext4 for / and /home? – NoNoNo May 25 '17 at 14:01
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Both / and /home are ext3 partitions. There is no LVM going on as far as I am aware. – John May 25 '17 at 19:21
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without LVM you would need to backup the home partition, destroy the partition, extend the / as described here: https://thewiringcloset.wordpress.com/2013/01/09/extending-a-root-filesystem-in-linux-without-lvm/ and then recreate the /home and restore the backup. – jnvilo May 26 '17 at 13:28