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Candyphobia

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Registered: 2025-03-09

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Dual boot merge partition

Hello is it possible to extend my arch installation volume on my SSD?
I am currently dual booting Windows and arch and my partitions look like this:
100mb EFI 417.93 gb NTFS WINDOWS 800mb EFI 30gb LINUX 15.79 gb SWAP 668mb recovery 504mb recovery.
I want to trim my Windows partition and extend the Linux one. Keep in mind the partitions are not adjasent and i want to keep all my files.

Candyphobia

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Registered: 2025-03-09

Posts: 6

Re: Dual boot merge partition

??

V1del

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Re: Dual boot merge partition

Have a backup of stuff you can't afford to lose in case of catastrophy, Use a gparted live disk, start gparted,  shrink the NTFS drive, move the ESP and linux partition into the new free space, expand it to bigger sizes.

Gparted makes this process visually and conceptually trivial, it's anything but in reality and any sort of power failure or similar during the partition resize/movement operation will be bad. (hence the backup) but if everything goes well that's basically all you'd have to adjust.

Last edited by V1del (2025-04-04 12:31:36)

Candyphobia

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Registered: 2025-03-09

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Re: Dual boot merge partition

Thanks!