UPDATE : I have made it to my desired partition layout and can now resize as needed, many thanks to PonJar for getting me there,
This may not be a very specific question and maybe not relevant to others, but I'll try to keep it reasonable.
I have got myself into a bit of a partitioning trap, my current partitioning scheme of my win10-ubuntu dual-boot laptop (as displayed by the disks app in ubuntu 19.04) is as follows (sorry about the bad attempt at a table).
name: size: format: mount point: type: notes:
/dev/sda1 273mb fat32 /boot/efi efi system pretty sure this is from the OEM
/dev/sda2 17mb unknown not mounted microsoft reserved from the OEM
/dev/sda3 315gb ntfs not mounted basic data win10 C:
/dev/sda4 250mb fat32 not mounted efi system I think I made this one while installing ubuntu, I'm not sure why it's not mounted
/dev/sda6 6gb swap mounted,none linux swap
/dev/sda7 177gb ext4 / linux filesystem contains a 75gb /home
/dev/sda5 889mb ntfs not mounted windows recovery environment from the OEM, not sure why its at the end but numbered sda5
My end goal is to have C:,a separate /home partition and root all next to each other(so I can easily reallocate space in the future), and I want to get there in the safest way possible.
It is my current understanding that to do this I should :
- make space at the end of
C:in windows - make a
/homepartition with the new space and migrate/hometo the new partition using this method - move
rootto just after the new/homeusing Gparted on a ubuntu live usb - shrink
rootbecause it no longer has/home - allocate the new free space to
C:,/home, androotas I want using Gparted on a ubuntu live usb - repair GRUB if it breaks using this method
I want to make sure I've got the right because it's a large undertaking and I've heard that some of this, especially moving a partitions, can be dangerous and may cause data loss/corruption.
Thanks for reading and considering.
