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I am using Ubuntu 19.04 right now, and I have a / and /home partition created on my laptop. I didn't set up LVM during installation. Now my / partition is running low on space, and I'd like to transfer some of space from /home to it.

  1. Both have Ext4 format, and / (/dev/nvme0n1p10) is located right before /home(/dev/nvme0n1p11).
  2. I have a Windows 10 installed too, /dev/nvme0n1p3 for C and /dev/nvme0n1p4 for D
  3. I also have a /boot partition (/dev/nvme0n1p8) and a swap partition (/dev/nvme0n1p9)

So how can I do that?
Many thanks. enter image description here

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  • Edit your question with a screenshot of gparted, and I'll take a look for you. – heynnema May 01 '20 at 14:29
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    Ubuntu 19.04 support ended on January 23, 2020. Please install a supported version. What size is / as if separate /home, your / should not need to be large. I make partition 25 or 30GB and use about 8GB on new 20.04 and after two years 18.04 was up to about 12GB. But I regularly houseclean. – oldfred May 01 '20 at 14:36
  • 19.04 is not supported here for it has reached the End Of Life as per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases Our ability to support you is limited to answering upgrade-related issues. – K7AAY May 01 '20 at 15:40
  • Hey @heynnema, I just added a screenshot. – DrizzleX May 01 '20 at 17:44
  • Without LVM you first need to make a free space after the partition which you want to expand. You can achieve this by deleting/moving/shrinking partitions. All these operations have to be performed on unmounted partitions so at least in some parts you will need to boot a live Linux (eg. from USB). – pabouk - Ukraine stay strong May 01 '20 at 17:56

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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
  • resize (reduce) the right side of p11 by the amount that you wish to add to p10 (~10G)
  • move the p11 partition all the way right
  • resize the right side of p10 all the way right
  • click the Apply icon
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