0

I have been running an Ubuntu 12.04 LTS 32-bit installation for 3 years and before the installation I had allocated separate partitions for /home and /, but as my hard drive space is limited I did not see much use of it since the files in /home directory is already in / directory as far as I understood, is my interpretation correct? Apart from that I am constantly getting low disk space warnings and would like to allocate bigger space for my /home and / partitions. How can I do that without messing up my system? I can shrink the partition name DATA in my system and move the mount point for root backwards, but I am afraid that this will lead to bigger problems. I am providing a SS from Gparted so that you can visualize the problem.

enter image description here enter image description here

1 Answer 1

1

to do it safely you remove space from DATA using windows (since partitioning using windows' Disk manager is safe). and leave that free space. and boot into live ubuntu using USB/DVD and merge that free space with / using gparted.

6
  • Okay I will merge that free space with the / mount point but how can I move its contents to the beginning?
    – Vesnog
    Nov 25, 2014 at 11:45
  • @Vesnog i dont think you should move data, ext4 itself is a smart filesystem, new files might get stored in the beginning of the partition. dont worry about this
    – Alex Jones
    Nov 25, 2014 at 11:47
  • What about the adjacent home partition how can I increase its size too?
    – Vesnog
    Nov 25, 2014 at 12:02
  • @Vesnog practically, we your system would never use swap(atleast on desktop). if it did use your system will get slower enough to make you system hang. so i dont use swap. you can include swap in home partition. and after trying tell whether partitioning was successful or not
    – Alex Jones
    Nov 25, 2014 at 12:13
  • @Vesnog i updated my above comment, you can safely merge swap with home
    – Alex Jones
    Nov 25, 2014 at 12:22

You must log in to answer this question.

Not the answer you're looking for? Browse other questions tagged .