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I have a dual booted Windows with Ubuntu. I want to extend my Storage of /dev/nvme0n1p5 (my Ubuntu partition) into the unallocated space with GParted. I cannot seem to be able to extend into the empty space ( I also tried from Windows Disk Management)

Screenshot of GParted

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Noah Böhme Rasmussen
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    Does this answer your question? How to resize partitions? – ChanganAuto Oct 12 '21 at 20:32
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    Little key icons show mounted partitions. You cannot edit mounted partitions, so have to use Ubuntu live installer which has gparted or use a gparted ISO based live flash drive. Since you have a fair amount of data, do not interrupt a move. You have to move left & then expand right. If you interrupt move, you lose all data, so have good backups. And alternative is to create a new partition make it /home & move /home into it. To move /home uses rsync- Be sure to use parameters to preserve ownership & permissions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving – oldfred Oct 12 '21 at 20:37

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The key icons beside 2 of your partitions indicates that they're "locked". Notice that they're mounted (on / and /boot/efi).

To avoid destroying the partition table of the /dev/nvme0n1 "disk", you cannot edit the partition table while any of its partitions is mounted.

To edit the partition table, boot a Live USB and run gparted from there . You cam easily find a Gparted Live USB on the internet.

If your disk is MBR, rather than GPT, you might have to shrink the primary partition (shrink /dev/nvme0n1p4 first).

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  • And please please back up before you do it - you’re moving then extending your partition - there’s always a risk of losing everything! Back up the partitions you’re not hoping to change too. – Will Oct 12 '21 at 20:51
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    Thank you for the answer! I installed gparted ISO Live and booted from a USB and then resized the partition just fine. – Noah Böhme Rasmussen Oct 13 '21 at 21:13