how can I extend root partition with unallocated space before that?

Question

I dual booted windows 10 and ubuntu
my hard drive is 1 tb
first part of hard disk about 700 gb is windows
then second part was another windows drive with 200 gb space
that I recently deleted it
and last part is 100 gb for whole ubuntu without separating home and root and ...
now I want to extend ubuntu with 200gb unallocated space and I can't what should I do
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thank you

You can't. You need to move it first then expand. – May 07 '19 at 18:42 — , May 07 '19 at 18:42
Edit your question and show me a screenshot of gparted. – heynnema May 07 '19 at 19:06 — heynnema, May 07 '19 at 19:06

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 07 '19 at 20:24

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You need to boot from a live disk, since you can't manipulate a partition you booted from.

Then run gparted.

https://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dmoving-space-between-partitions

answered May 07 '19 at 20:24

Tim Richardson

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