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I accidentally left 1tb of unallocated space, and decided to expand my /home partition(sda6) but somehow I cannot, tried all different "answers" here but none of them worked, so I have to ask directly..

I have Windows 10 + Ubuntu 17.10 dual-boot solution, with Ubuntu booting first at boot(selecting OS in GRUB), and using Gparted from Ubuntu ISO(set up via Unetbootin in Win 10).

Here I post also image if partitions - sorry for phone picture..

EDIT: I installed it using one big guide out there, if i recall correctly - sda1 is default partition which PC shipped with, should do something with Windows i believe, sda2 is Windows C: drive, sda3 is well..swap, sda5 is / (root fs), sda6 is /home, sda7/8/9 is /boot, /var and /tmp in this order. Hope that helps, Also updated screenshot now with mount points. PS: Sorry for language

New GParted Screenshot

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Benjamin Forro
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Since your linux "partitions' are actually logical drives in the extended partition, you have to add the free space to the extended partition before you can expand any of your linux drives.

After, adding the free space to the extended partition. Move the logical drives until the space is next to the one that you want to expand. You may need to move them one at a time, and they should be unmounted in order to move them.

Note: moving the root drive ( / ) can cause boot problems.

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In comment you say that sda7 is /boot. This folder contains grub's files. Moving it may cause grub to crash as it will not be able to find the location of it's boot files (grub finds boot files by physical address before drives are mounted). You should reinstall grub after moving /boot. If you can not unmount /boot, you have to boot a liveCD to move it; which complictes reinstalling grub.

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