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I need to increase the size of my home partition. Since the /home is at the bottom of the list, I really don't have much idea on what l should about it. Any help is appreciated.

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Above link is a screenshot of my Gparted application.

As you can see I have 100 GB of unallocated memory.

Is there any way to allocate some of it into my /home partition?

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You have two options.

  • the quick one: using Gparted, format the 100Gb block as ext4. Let's say most of your stuff is in /home/username/Videos. Create a new directory called /home/username/NewVideos. Mount the new partition at /home/username/NewVideos. Move all of your stuff from Videos to NewVideos. Remove the (now empty) directory Videos, and rename NewVideos to Videos. Edit /etc/fstab so your new partition will automatically be mounted at /home/username/Videos at the next reboot.
  • the thorough one: You need to boot from a LiveUSB for this. Move your partitions around so the 100Gb unallocated block is next to your /home partition. Then, merge these partitions (see How to merge partitions?).

In all cases, make sure you have backups of all your data.

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  • The first option seems cool and I have a feeling that it will work. Thanks – persistent_poltergeist Jun 16 '16 at 09:16
  • Is there much concern about the data when using the first option? – persistent_poltergeist Jun 16 '16 at 09:33
  • @persistent-poltergeist You won't touch any used partition with Gparted, so no. I would be careful moving the stuff from Videos to NewVideos, to make sure that the mount command has worked properly. In fact I would do a rsync from Videos to NewVideos before deleting all the stuff in Videos. – Jos Jun 16 '16 at 09:38