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I know similar questions have been asked before, but I can't seem to make them apply in my case. My current situation is this

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My hope is to shrink the swap partition and add most of it to sda5 and 6 Any suggestions?

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  • What have you tried so far ? As I see it a swap shrink might expand sda5 as that would place the free space beside it. But not sure about sda6
    – George Udosen
    Feb 16, 2017 at 19:24
  • im happy to get rid of most of the swap. But where would I go from there? sda4 is root (afaik). Also, thx for embedding the picture
    – user3235916
    Feb 16, 2017 at 19:30
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    Basically, after you shrink the swap you must first move the two other partitions, as partitions can only be extended to the right, not to the left.
    – fkraiem
    Feb 16, 2017 at 19:33
  • Shrink the swap as yours is too large for a swap partition. Shrink using gparted in a live session, then lets see what we get out of it.
    – George Udosen
    Feb 16, 2017 at 19:33
  • I'm writing this from a live session haha. I can shrink the swap to nothing. If i try to move or resize sda5 i get You have queued an operation to move the start sector of partition /dev/sda5. Failure to boot is most likely to occur if you move the GNU/Linux partition containing /boot, or if you move the Windows system partition C:. You can learn how to repair the boot configuration in the GParted FAQ.
    – user3235916
    Feb 16, 2017 at 19:36

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