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I've run out of space on my root partition and I want to extend it. I've seen another posts of this topic but my lack of knowledge makes it difficult for me to achieve what i want. Here's a screenshot of my GParted Window:

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Kalle Richter
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You can't resize the root partition while you're in Ubuntu. You must use the GParted Live CD/USB, and then, according to your picture, shrink sda5 and grow sda9

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As stated, you can't resize partitions while you are using them. To resize root partition, boot via Ubuntu LiveUSB/DVD or dedicated GParted Live CD/USB. If you use Ubuntu liveUSB/DVD, open the terminal and type

sudo apt install gparted

Then, open gparted and shrink (top menu - Partition->resize) the partition you don't need to be so big (not SWAP!) and then extend sda9.

Then apply changes and wait for them to finish.

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