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I would really like a clear guide to expand my root (/) partition. The screenshot shows my partitions (Windows 7/Ubuntu 14.04 - dual boot) and as you can see /dev/sda3 is my Ubuntu partition. I would like to move the 90 GB unallocated partition up to the root and expand the root. I would appreciate help with the following questions:

  1. Can I freely resize the data partition (/dev/sda5) until it has no more unused space?
  2. Can I even extend the root without formatting it?
  3. Can I unmount (so that i may move the 90 GB up) the home partition without bad stuff happening?

My partions:

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Thank you very much in advance! Semester begins soon and I have like 10 GB of courseware to fit into the root dir.

A J
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Daniel Svendsen
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  1. No
  2. Yes
  3. Yes

All the above answers are only true if you've booted from the GParted Live CD or the Live Ubuntu CD (with which you've installed Ubuntu)

Fabby
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