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I am not able to resize my root. I want to merge the unallocated space to my root partition. My gparted screenshot looks like this

Deepak Chauhan
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  • Here is another link which might help https://askubuntu.com/questions/269045/how-to-merge-an-unallocated-partition-with-an-extended-partition – Raffles Aug 07 '20 at 18:58
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    You are unable to resize your root for one big, obvious reason: It's mounted. Boot a LiveUSB instead, and then you will discover your onboard HDD/SSD partiions resize quite easily. – user535733 Aug 07 '20 at 19:04
  • Ultimately you should read the docs on using gparted and creating partitions. – mccurcio Aug 07 '20 at 23:50
  • Status please... – heynnema Aug 08 '20 at 23:55

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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
  • move the p4 partition all the way left
  • resize the right side of p4 all the way right
  • click the Apply icon
heynnema
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I agree with @heynnema. But I being more of a rookie would do it in a simpler way. Download the gparted live disk. Make a bootable USB of it. Boot to it. Open Gparted if it doesn't open automatically.

Right click on the root partition. Choose Resize/Move. Drag the left side to fill the unallocated. Hit Apply. Wait.

Try to reboot. If it fails then you need a bootable USB of Boot repair. Fire that up and let it do its magic.

walttheboss
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