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ArchUserBTW69

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Registered: 2022-09-03

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[SOLVED] How do i increase size of partition?

I am dualbooting windows and linux right now, my linux is on a ssd different from windows, so my ssd is where my linux is, its split up in to arch and an normal storage thing from that i put some stuff in. Recently I decided to want to get more space from my storage, so i shrinked the ssd storage from the windows disk manager and tried to put it in linux filesystem but cant seem to understand how to, i think it has something to do with the Swap and Boot in the middle of the Filesystem and Free Space.

Here is a pic of the ssd

https://imgur.com/a/QQYV0hf

I'm trying to put the 361G into the filesystem

Last edited by ArchUserBTW69 (2023-09-14 15:14:52)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [SOLVED] How do i increase size of partition?

The easiest/hassle free option is to format that and mount it somewhere. If you really want to explicitly extend the existing free space I strongly suggest you use a Gparted Live Disk to do the moving of the partitions and resizing of the new free space, it makes this delicate and error prone process visually easy to do and will work fine generally. That can generally still be a costly operation but since you aren't moving much data shouldn't be that huge of a deal. Still filesystem/partition operations like these can fail for a variety of reasons, make sure you have backups.