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I know there are many questions about this, but none of them worked out for me. So, my partitions look like this

I need to enlarge /home with the space of the "sin asignar" partition.

Everyone says i just got to press "Resize/move" and then move it, well, this is what I see...

Can anyone give me some advice? By the way, the screenshots are taken from my OS, but I always try to do it from a Gparted Live USB.

Takkat
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Psycoguana
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    Because the free space is not next to your /home partition. You will need to move around the other partitions to get the free space to follow the /home partition in order to grow it. – psusi Mar 28 '16 at 02:29

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Short answer: This is happening because your /home partition is between other two non-empty ones.

Explanation

Think of the hard drive as a line of people (each person is a partition). 

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 |

If number 3 leaves the line, a free space appears. That would be your unassigned space:

| 1 | 2 |   | 4 | 5 | 6 |

If number 5 wants to have 2 spaces instead of one, it can't, because it's trapped between 4 and 6!
So, it has to kindly ask number 4 to move next to 2, so the line looks like this:

| 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 ¦ 5 | 6 |

How to solve it

WARNING: This procedure goes wrong more often than you think, so if you want to avoid losing all your data, make a backup. Seriously. Do it.

So, in your case, you should follow these steps if you want to enlarge your /home partition:

  1. Move /sda3 to the left, by right-clicking on it and choosing "Resize/move". This will probably take long.
  2. Enlarge /sda4 with the empty space on its left.
  3. Move /sda6 to the left with the same procedure as before. This will take even longer.
  4. Finally, enlarge /home as much as you want.
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