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I am using a dual boot system with Ubuntu 18.04 and Windows 8.1. So is it possible and how can I merge unallocated 123GiB which I freed in Windows from my D: Drive (/dev/sda2, ntfs) and move them to /dev/sda6 (84.75GiB, ext4)?

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Kulfy
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  • You can't do that. To merge non contiguous partitions you need to make your HDD a dynamic disk which Windows support but Linux don't – Kulfy Feb 03 '19 at 17:15
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    Don't merge them per se. Expand the extended partition, move up sda5, then expand sda6 into the new space. – wjandrea Feb 03 '19 at 17:21
  • You only have three primary partitions, so you could just make the unallocated another partition and mount it somewhere like /home, /usr/local/data,.... – ubfan1 Feb 03 '19 at 17:33
  • Re my comment, see https://askubuntu.com/q/126153/301745 – wjandrea Feb 03 '19 at 18:01

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I did what @ubfan1 said in a comment:

You only have three primary partitions, so you could just make the unallocated another partition and mount it somewhere like /home, /usr/local/data,....

So I did this in /home/plus_data. At the end of the day, the aim was to get more space.
Thanks

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