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As you can see, the bigger partition is for Windows. Turns out I didn't need it as much. And so, I'm thinking of enlarging the Ubuntu partition instead (to update to Ubuntu 14) but now, I can't since there are those two partitions in between.

Is there any way I can repartition this without having to format anything? Thanks!

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You can shrink sda4 (e.g. by 10GB) and then just move sda5 and sda6 to the left by the same amount. After that, you have space to enlarge sda7.
But caution: Partitioning is always risky! Especially moving the left border of a partition, especially of a bootable system partition, can cause errors that might prevent your machine from booting! A backup is the best way to avoid data loss, so take the time and do it, it might save you much trouble!

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How about just shrink sda4 (I think windows can shrink itself, in case you're worried about windows' proprietary NTFS filesystem & linux's ntfs drivers) and then create a new separate partition in the new empty space, for your /home folder, &/or for data?

A default Ubuntu installation only takes up under 8GB of space (I think, the installer won't run with less than that?), so after moving out some data &/or removing unneeded programs, should be a good amount of space left.

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  • Mounting a separate partition as /home will cause the original home directory on the main partition to become invisible! You have to mount the partition first somewhere else, move the contents of the old /home over to the new partition (from within a live system of course!) and then edit fstab to mount the second partition now as new /home. Nothing I would advice a beginner to do...
    – Byte Commander
    Mar 22, 2015 at 20:53
  • Sounds about right. Not a beginner question, and I don't think guissmo said they were a beginner (just didn't want to format while repartitioning, which is a little like saying you don't want to turn right while driving...)
    – Xen2050
    Mar 23, 2015 at 8:57

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