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How can I increment space for /home? My first /boot directory was 5 gigabytes and next I changed to 1 gigabyte. Now I'm confused because the change give me unallocated with size 5.02GiB. How can I add this unallocated 5.02GiB to /home?

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Follow these steps to increase your /home partition.

  • Create a Ubuntu Live USB and boot from it.

  • Go to Gparted and turn off your swap partition. (Rightclick-->swap off)

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  • Rightclick on swap partition-- > "Resize/Move"--> Move it to the Rightmost area.

  • Right click on home partition (/dev/sda6) --> "Resize/Move" --> Increase its size by dragging it.

  • Apply changes.

Now you need to Correct the UUID entries in the fstab file.

(If you move your /boot partition)

Chroot to your original / partition and reinstall grub:

Execute the following commands in sequence.

sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo mount /dev/sda8 /mnt/boot
for i in /dev /dev/pts /proc /sys /run; do sudo mount -B $i /mnt$i; done

sudo chroot /mnt

grub-install /dev/sda
update-grub  
exit

Update the UUID entries in fstab file as given below:

Open another terminal and execute :

sudo blkid

Open one more terminal and execute :

sudo gedit /mnt/etc/fstab

Replace the UUID entries of sda6 & sda7 (& sda8 if you move the boot partition too) with those of the output given from the blkid command.

Reboot.

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