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I would really like a clear guide to expand my root (/) partition. The screenshot shows my partitions (Windows 7/Ubuntu 14.04 - dual boot) and as you can see /dev/sda3 is my Ubuntu partition. I would like to move the 90 GB unallocated partition up to the root and expand the root. I would appreciate help with the following questions:

  1. Can I freely resize the data partition (/dev/sda5) until it has no more unused space?
  2. Can I even extend the root without formatting it?
  3. Can I unmount (so that i may move the 90 GB up) the home partition without bad stuff happening?

My partions:

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Thank you very much in advance! Semester begins soon and I have like 10 GB of courseware to fit into the root dir.

A J
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Daniel Svendsen
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  • Here is your answer. http://askubuntu.com/questions/492054/how-to-extend-my-root-partition. But your thread seems possible duplicate thread. – Wolverine Dec 28 '14 at 20:21
  • Thanks alot, I already looked at this post and it deletes the swap partition. I can do that but I don't think I can delete my home and boot partition (well maybe the latter). – Daniel Svendsen Dec 28 '14 at 22:26
  • Deleting home and boot partition? But you were mentioned extending only the partition. – Wolverine Dec 28 '14 at 22:28

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  1. No
  2. Yes
  3. Yes

All the above answers are only true if you've booted from the GParted Live CD or the Live Ubuntu CD (with which you've installed Ubuntu)

Fabby
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    Thank you, I'll give that a try and see how it goes. Regarding point 1.: How much space can I take for the data partition (/dev/sda5) (a relatively empty partition to be used for music). – Daniel Svendsen Dec 30 '14 at 17:04
  • I would say: if you take double of whatever data you have now, you shouls be safe enough! ;) And as you're a reputation 1 user: don't forget to click the grey check-mark under the "1" at the left of this text, therefore "accepting" the answer, which is better then saying "thank you" as your and my reputation will go up... – Fabby Dec 30 '14 at 17:53
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    Still though - words are nice: Thanks for your help man appreciate it <3 – Daniel Svendsen Jan 24 '15 at 02:09