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gparted screen shot enter image description here Can someone please help me in merging sda4 with sda8(ubuntu).

guiverc
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Sathish Kumar Reddy
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    sda8 is mounted; you need to umount partitions for gparted to do resizing etc. Personally I'd copy the data from sda4 to sda8 (whilst mounted), then reboot into 'live' & erase sda4 & expand sda8 to use the space that was used by sda4. The erase/expand I'd do using a 'live' media, ie. Ubuntu install media. Backup all data before hand (better safe than sorry; in case a truck destroyed power lines etc during resize etc). If grub is owned by sda8 you may need to grub-install due to potential move of /boot, but I'd worry about that that only if it becomes an issue. – guiverc Sep 26 '19 at 11:35

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"Merging" in the truest sense is not possible as far as i know.

What you can do:

  1. Move all files from sda4 to sda8
  2. delete sda4
  3. move sda8 to where sda4 was and resize it (see screenshot)

Screenshot showing resize option in context menu

There might be issues after you move your root partition but its not possible to predict the exact error/countermeasures.

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