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Currently I have / in /sda1, which has 732.3GB.

All I want to do is separate /home in a new partition, so that later on I can install Ubuntu 16.04 while preserving the data in /home.

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The 732.3GB partition has 664.4GB being used, so I can't create a new parition for /home using Gparted, I have to somehow divide the existing partition into 2, with the new one being exclusively /home.

I don't how to explain it better, but I would really appreciate your help.

AnotherKiwiGuy
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The basic idea is to boot from live USB/DVD of Ubuntu and use Gparted from the live USB to shrink the existing / partition.

However, you have too much data to shrink the partition and create empty space. You will need an external hard drive to move some of the data from /home. Then you will be able to shrink /, create new partition and move the /home to the new partition.

The details are at

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving

Hope this helps

user68186
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  • that is exactly the problem, I'm only trying to find how to do this because I don't have and external hard drive (I had one but I dropped it and it broke) – Fabrício Santana Nov 26 '16 at 14:25
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    Save your money till you can buy two external hard drives. Use one to back up all the data, and use the second for the moving the home. – user68186 Nov 26 '16 at 14:38