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I am working with Ubuntu 18.04 on dual boot and I am trying to increase my home partition using gparted.

My home partition is /dev/sda9 and drive letterE: is on the /dev/sda6 partition. It has almost 400 GB not used. I want to add 100GB to my home partition.

I tried to boot Ubuntu from USB and I shrinked the /dev/sda6 partition and know I have 100 GB of unallocated space, but I couldn't resize my home partition. How to do this?

screenshot of gparted

KazikM
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Obviously you can't extend /dev/sda9 because /dev/sda7 and /dev/sda8 are on the way to the unallocated space.

Right click the swap partition and disable swap for a while. Then move the swap partition to the left.

Then move /dev/sda8 to the left.

After that you'll be able to extend the /dev/sda9 partition.

But beware that if you move the / partition, you'll have to reinstall grub.

To fix the boot issue, run:

sudo mount /dev/sda8 /mnt
sudo mount --bind /dev /mnt/dev
sudo mount --bind /proc /mnt/proc
sudo mount --bind /sys  /mnt/sys
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo update-grub
exit

Reboot.

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