First of all it may cause a boot failure. If it happens, you will needed to repair it using Boot-Repair
As you want to free some space from /dev/sda2/
and want to add it to /dev/sda
7 and your Ubuntu partition.
- Boot into the live mode using Ubuntu CD or USB.
- OPen Gparted Partition Editor.
- Now right click on
/dev/sda2
and select resize. Make some free space in the left side of /dev/sda2
- Now right click on
/dev/sda3
, select resize and drag the box according to your need. Leave some space in the left side of /dev/sda3
, which you will add to your /
i.e /dev/sda7
.
Note one thing that you have made some space free in your primary partitition, which you want to add in your extended partition i.e /dev/sda7
(/
).
So drag the box of your extended partition, and take the free space(after /dev/sda3
) inside it.
Once free space is inside extended partition box, repeat the above procedure to add it to add this free space to your /dev/sda7
Once you are setishfied with your partition scheme, apply it.
Gparted
. It would give better understanding of arrangement of your partitions./dev/sda2
./dev/sda2
to add to/dev/sda7
i.e./
and /dev/sda3` i.e./windows-d
.