Expand Partition To Unallocated Space In Front Of The Partition

I currently have Ubuntu installed on my hdd. However, somehow it sized itself to use only have of my hdd, and created its partition on the tail end of the disk. This leaves the other half unallocated and I can not expand into it.

Any ideas?

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
• move the /dev/nvme0n1p3 partition all the way left
• resize the right side of /dev/nvme0n1p3 all the way to the right (or as far as you wish)
• click the Apply icon