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First of all, I know that this question has already been answer, but I need a little help. My "problem" is that I need to give more space to my root partition. This is my GParted screenshot:

My GParted screenshot

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mau
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The procedures are detailed in the link that I gave as a reason to close this question - but to paraphrase them:

  1. Make a backup of your data onto an external device (a usb drive?)

  2. You need to create some empty space on your disk. To do this you will need to shrink the '/dev/sda4' partition, by an amount equal to the space that you want to add to your root partition.

  3. The extra space (from '/dev/sda4') will need to be congruent to (next to) '/dev/sda1', and to do this, you will need to move the remaining partitions ('/dev/sda2' and '/dev/sda3')

  4. The final step will be to expand '/dev/sda1' into the open space.

Although you can move and resize '/dev/sda3' and '/dev/sda4' while you are using your computer, you probably cannot do the same for '/dev/sda1' and '/dev/sda2'. To accomplish the whole resizing scheme, you should create a liveUSB and run gparted from that device to do the repartitioning. It bears repeating at this point, that making a backup of your data before you do this is a really good idea.

Charles Green
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