Combining Partitions.

[Richard Barmann]

On 08/30/2016 01:10 AM, Doug wrote:
>
> On 08/29/2016 07:48 PM, Richard Barmann wrote:
>> I have set my partitions as the Forum advised and the install was good.
>> On the 70Gig drive I have all my data. It is 36 Gig total and 35Gig
>> Used. The balance is on the second remaining partition with none used.
>> The partition is labeled Allocated. How can I just move the majority of
>> that to the first Partition.
>>
>> Thank You,
>>
>> Dick Barmann
>>
>>
> Why not use GParted Download an ISO and burn a disk or dongle. (You
> cannot run GParted to modify a mounted partition, so even if you have
> it on your system, it won't help.)
>
> Then you can move partitions around, shrink one, expand another, etc.
> It works really well to modify actual system partitions without
> wrecking anything. If it were me, I wouldn't be using
>
> just one partition for everything, I'd have / and /home, but since you
> have everything on one partition, just delete the other partition and
> expand the one that has everything on it
>
> to fill the space where the empty partition was.
>
> --doug
I have Kubuntu 0n a 140Gig Drive and all the data on 1/2 of the 70Gig
Drive. I just want to expand the 1/2 Data Partition and delete or shrink
the Allocated Partition.
Dick