Question about How to Resize ext3 Partitions

Hi everybody,

I have the / completly full !!i followed the How to Resize ext3 Partitions in order to shrink /home and enlarge the /. I have already shrinked /home by 2,1Go ,but i don't know if i can enlarge the / by this free space; I mean i don't know if those 2,1 Go are directly behind the / ?.Or the important is to have free space in the disk??
the command df -h shows:
Sys de fichs Taille Uti Disp Uti% Monté sur
/dev/sda5 7,6G 7,3G 0 100% /
tmpfs 1003M 0 1003M 0% /dev/shm
/dev/sda6 2,8G 1,6G 1,1G 60% /home

and fdisk-l:
/dev/sda5 35171 36177 Linux
/dev/sda6 36177 36814 Linux
/dev/sda7 36814 36942 Swap

I need your help .(my / is full that i obtain a black screan!!!!)
Thanks in advanced

 

Help ,plzz
I'm waiting for your suggestions

 

Hi,
I have the same situation,
i have a VM server that i need to increase the / partition.
please help.

 

Try GParted: http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted

 

resize ext3 partitions

because the MiniTool Partition Wizard 5.2 partition can support Linux ext3 and do partitions well,so you can have a try.