how do I join two partitions with gparted?

SO_32

6/7/23, 1:09 AM

partitions

I'm in this bad situation: EFI/ unallocated/ext4 boot/swap/ubuntu/ntfs

how do I bring 'unallocated' before ntfs and merge it with ubuntu? Do I need ntfs? Is it a windows thing?

Thank you for your answers and no, it's not a duplicate.

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partitioning

SO_32

6/7/23, 1:19 AM

thank you for your comment. I looked pretty hard at this and even tho there are many similar answered questions, none of them apply to my case unfortunately

SO_32

6/7/23, 1:41 AM

Dear Matigo, thank you again. Is there a way to do it with gparted? I would really like to avoid this much of extra work as I would have to rebuild my installer

SO_32

6/7/23, 2:12 AM

ok ok, goddam. I solved it. Thank you both

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Ubuntu

topsail

6/7/23, 2:12 AM

You could try (!) this way: grow the boot partition to the left, to include the unallocated part. It will be very big, but then you can shrink it. Next, grow the swap partition to include the unallocated part - it too will then be very big, but you can next shrink it in turn. Now step three would be to grow the NTFS partion ... it will be very big but you shrink it to the left, and finally you have your unallocated area next to your ext4 partition and your last step is to grow it to the left. All of this moving of partitions will be very slow and is dangerous so you must back everything up. As a rule growing to the right is easy and quick, but growing to the left involves actually moving data and is slower and more dangerous.

A simpler solution would be to create a new ext4 partition in the unallocated part just where it is now (no need to move anything else). You can then mount this new partition in your linux system and use it as you will. For instance, it could be mounted as /data and used to store data - but you can basically call it anything you like it will just be more room for your files.