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I have the following partitions

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I want to merge /dev/sda8 with /dev/sda5 without losing data from /dev/sda5

I've looked around but could not find a good answer.

As you can see, sda8 is not mounted and it's contents can be lost no problem.

When I remove that partition and try to move sda5, it won't let me. I can't move that partition to the left for some reason.

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  • You have to use live installer. You cannot modify mounted partitions & little key icon says it is mounted. I do not like moving left as any interruption power failure, impatient user, etc totally corrupts it. So have good backups. I prefer to have smaller system partitions like 25GB and larger /home or data partition(s). I use a data partition, but newer users find setting up /home easier. http://askubuntu.com/questions/743095/how-to-prepare-a-disk-on-an-efi-based-pc-for-ubuntu – oldfred Oct 24 '16 at 13:32

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As oldfred pointed out:

You have to use live installer. You cannot modify mounted partitions & little key icon says it is mounted. I do not like moving left as any interruption power failure, impatient user, etc totally corrupts it. So have good backups. I prefer to have smaller system partitions like 25GB and larger /home or data partition(s). I use a data partition, but newer users find setting up /home easier. Question #743095

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