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here's the screenshot of my gparted screen. I am a newbie at Ubuntu and I dont think that deleting /boot and recreating it would be a wise idea since deleting it also formats it(i think). Please help as soon as possible my root is at 100% usage.

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    Welcome to AskUbuntu. If it were me; I'd boot a live disk (eg. Ubuntu install media), create a new '/' partition (say 30gb, min. 15gb which may still have issues upgrading to next release so 24gb+), then cp (copy) your files across to this partition. You can then diff (compare & show differences; should be none!) to ensure data across safe, then edit UUIDs so correct for new partition and have it boot instead... (deleting & re-using the small old partition can be done later)
    – guiverc
    Dec 12, 2017 at 12:00
  • What do you have using up so much space? Try sudo apt autoremove to clean up /.
    – ravery
    Dec 12, 2017 at 12:13
  • @ravery tried it. cleaned only 86 MB :/
    – Konark Jain
    Dec 12, 2017 at 12:47
  • moving boot files can cause a boot errors. So, it is best to do as guiverc suggests.
    – ravery
    Dec 12, 2017 at 13:22
  • @guiverc any way to do it without the live USB? I actually dont have a bootable ubuntu USB as of now.
    – Konark Jain
    Dec 12, 2017 at 13:24

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The basic approach would be the following -

  1. Boot using a LiveCD
  2. Move your boot partition. Increase the size of root partition by merging with the unallocated space. Use gparted.
  3. Update your fstab file at /etc/fstab. Use the blkid command to know the UUID's of the new partitions.
  4. run grub-install for the new boot location (use the --boot-directory= option).

Hope that helps.

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