How to increase the home partition of Ubuntu using another partition without reinstalling?

Khalid Alabyad

5/14/23, 10:26 AM

I was on dual boot, then i formatted the other partition to use it with the current ubuntu partition. the 2 partitions i want to make as 1 partition How to do that safely without losing any data

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gparted

guiverc

5/14/23, 10:34 AM

You've given no specifics (I have no idea what release etc) so advice will thus be *generic*. Copy the data to the partition you want to keep; then re-size as per duplicate link.

mook765

5/14/23, 11:47 AM

Seems you just created `sdb2` since it appears to be empty. If so, just delete this partition and then resize `sdb1`.

heynnema

5/14/23, 2:37 PM

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5/21/23, 3:22 PM

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heynnema

5/14/23, 2:36 PM

Make sure that you have a good backup of your important Ubuntu files, as this procedure can corrupt or lose data.

Keep these things in mind:

always start the entire procedure with issuing a swapoff on any mounted swap partitions, and end the entire procedure with issuing a swapon on that same swap partition
a move is done by pointing the mouse pointer at the center of a partition and dragging it left/right with the hand cursor
a resize is done by dragging the left/right side of a partition to the left/right with the directional arrow cursor
if any partition can't be moved/resized graphically, you may have to manually enter the specific required numeric data (don't do this unless I instruct you to)
you begin any move/resize by right-clicking on the partition in the lower pane of the main window, and selecting the desired action from the popup menu, then finishing that action in the new move/resize window

Do the following...

Note: if the procedure doesn't work exactly as I outline, STOP immediately and DO NOT continue.

boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB, in “Try Ubuntu” mode
start gparted
if /dev/sdb2 is empty, delete the partition
resize the right side of /dev/sdb1 all the way to the right
click the Apply icon

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EN: How to increase the home partition of Ubuntu using another partition without reinstalling?

TH: จะเพิ่มโฮมพาร์ติชันของ Ubuntu โดยใช้พาร์ติชันอื่นโดยไม่ต้องติดตั้งใหม่ได้อย่างไร

RO: Cum să măresc partiția de acasă a Ubuntu folosind o altă partiție fără a reinstala?

RU: Как увеличить домашний раздел Ubuntu с помощью другого раздела без переустановки?

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