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Please have a look at the screenshot below. All I have to do is to merge the unallocated space (10.42 GB) to my Linux partition sda3 due to low disk space. I tried to resize the sda3 partition but I cannot do so. Please guide me step by step to do this. If I do by myself, I may lose data. Seeking advice from experts. I'm not familiar with merging partition and all. Please help me. Thanks.

Edit: I have to merge the partition sda3 to the unallocated space (10.42 GB). Tried GParted in Live boot, but failed to resize partition.

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La Corazón
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All partitions MUST have contiguous space, no matter the filesystem type or the operating system. Your sda3 and the unallocated space are not adjacent, therefore they cannot be merged into a contiguous space.

In linux, you can't merge adjacent partitions directly. You have to delete one of the partitions and have to allocate the resulted unallocated space to the other partition (by expanding the remained partition).

You can 'move' the sda5 partition to the right, thus resulting an unallocated space adjacent to sda3, and then expand the sda3 to encompass the unallocated space.

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Whoa. Stop. You have to decide what your final disk configuration needs to look like, and why. Moving sda5 to the right did nothing for you. Trying to allocate +10GB to your sda3 Ubuntu / partition won't accomplish anything, as you'll still not have enough to run Ubuntu properly.

There's no such thing as MERGE anything. You either DELETE, or MOVE, or RESIZE partitions.

Your whole current setup looks very wrong. Please describe what's on your sda5 and sda6 partitions, so that I can recommend a reasonable solution for you.

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