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Lately I am trying to update the packages in my Centos (Physical Box) and got error about not enough space. What is the best way to resize a mount point that is no LVM?

Follows are some information:

[root@sever ~]# yum update
:#skipped
:#skipped
Disk Requirements:
At least 26MB needed on the / filesystem.


[root@sever ~]# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda9             9.5G  9.0G   28M 100% /
/dev/sda8             9.5G  151M  8.9G   2% /tmp
/dev/sda6              95G  4.6G   86G   6% /usr
/dev/sda5             139G  825M  131G   1% /var
/dev/sda3              95G  213M   90G   1% /var/log
/dev/sda2              95G  4.2G   86G   5% /home
/dev/sda1             965M   34M  882M   4% /boot
tmpfs                 1.9G     0  1.9G   0% /dev/shm


[root@sever ~]# fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1         127     1020096   83  Linux
/dev/sda2             128       12875   102398310   83  Linux
/dev/sda3           12876       25623   102398310   83  Linux
/dev/sda4           25624       60801   282567285    5  Extended
/dev/sda5           25624       44228   149444631   83  Linux
/dev/sda6           44229       56976   102398278+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7           56977       58251    10241406   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8           58252       59526    10241406   83  Linux
/dev/sda9           59527       60801    10241406   83  Linux

If I would like to shift some spaces from /dev/sda5 to /dev/sda9, is it possible? Thanks for any comment.

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  • You're going to need to tell us more about this server. Is it a physical box? Virtualized somehow?
    – EEAA
    Mar 19, 2014 at 15:38
  • Hello, it is a physical box Centos Mar 19, 2014 at 15:55
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    The filesystem layout you have seems pretty much conform best practices, so the question should begin with is simply why you're running out of space on your root partition in the first place. du -s is your friend.
    – HBruijn
    Mar 19, 2014 at 16:12
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    Given your current layout I would be tempted to boot a livecd, and shift space between sda8(/tmp) -> sda9(/root). This should be a quick easy fix with gparted, just decrease the sda8 size, and change the sda9 start point. For any other changes you are probably looking at a backup/re-partition/reinstall/restore.
    – Zoredache
    Mar 19, 2014 at 16:37
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    And you've discovered one of the reasons why we do use LVM to begin with. Mar 19, 2014 at 18:15

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