I had a failing hard-drive so I cloned it with dd
to larger 500 GB HD. It seemed to have worked well, but I have all this unallocated free space at the end of the disk (230 GB).
I tried to used gparted
from a liveUSB to allocate all this space to my root + home
partitions (other than that I only have a small extended partition with the swap
). It won't let me do this. I can only create another partition, or allocate the free space to the extended partition. I can however reduce the size of the root + home
partition since I wasn't using all the space.
Is there a way to put this free space to my root + home
partition after all?
Or do I have to go with another partition. If so I'd like to separate my home
from the root
, reduce the root
partition and create a ext4 logical home
partition. What would be the best and safest way to do this?