Friends, I don't have enough free space in root
directory. but in home directory I have 40gb free. So I can
not install anything in root directory (which occupies more
space) Please suggest me If there is any possibility to
increase the root directory size by minimising the home
directory's.

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Friends, I don't have enough free space in root directory. but in home directory I have 4..

Answer / saurabh makkar

If your root partition is on LVM then you can increase the size of your root directory by

#lvextend - L +size in MB/GB -n /dev/vg/lv

Otherwise U can't do any thing with root partition

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Friends, I don't have enough free space in root directory. but in home directory I have 4..

Answer / jagadeesh

If you implement the L.V.M on your partitions you can
increase the size of the volume by L.V.M

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Friends, I don't have enough free space in root directory. but in home directory I have 4..

Answer / susheel narayan singh

There two cmd to create a partition
1-Fdisk
2-parted

The advantage of parted cmd is that by the help of this
cmd you can increase your partition size.

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