How to expand partition with unallocated space

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Hi there, I am having troubles to expand my Fedora partition.

My Windows partiton is Partition 2. I cleaned up some things and reduced it’s size giving me this 165 GB unallocated space.

Now I want to use this space to expand my Partition 6 which is Fedora.

Be it disk utility, btrfs or gparted, I can’t make it work and expand the partition.

Any help would be appreciated, thanks.

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A couple of things.

  1. Partition 6 is a logical partition inside the extended partition. You would need to grow the extended partition(Partition 3) first.
  2. Most partitions can only be extended to the right so you might need to move partitions before expanding.

Lastly, be aware that moving and resizing partitions comes with a risk of data loss so be sure to have your data backed up before attempting it.

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Hi there,

Thank you for your answer,

Yes I can expand partition 3, but then the free space is to the left. How do you move partitions around ?

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gparted and kde partition manager can move partitions.

You need to move partition 5, then partition 6. Then you would be able to expand partition 6.

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Do you mean :

  • put free space at the start of partition 3
  • copy partition 5 and paste into unallocated space
  • same for partition 6
  • delete old partitions
  • expand partition 6 into new unallocated space on the right

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Like that ?

Also how do how rename the “Copy of” thingy ?

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Don’t copy/paste them, move them. Click on partition and select Resize/Move.

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Ah yes like that.

Is this ok ?

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I read that I might need to modify boot files or things like that. Is that correct ? Or it it automatically handled by gparted ?

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That looks better to me.

It depends. Usually your UUIDs will not change so no changes are needed. You should check everything in /etc/fstab after making those changes.

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/etc/fstab stayed the same. Everything completed successfully and even my data is still there. Everything seems fine so far.

Thank you very much @dalto !

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