Combining Partitions.

[O. Sinclair]

On 30/08/2016 13:53, Richard Barmann wrote:
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> On 08/30/2016 01:10 AM, Doug wrote:
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>> 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.)
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> 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
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As noted, this is not exactly uncomplicated. You can by design not 
expand or shrink partitions while they are mounted. Hence the 
suggestions to mount from say GParted or that matter Kubuntu flash/disk. 
Then you can resize, copy/move data and so on. But in "active" mode you 
can only copy/move data, not change partitions or size of them

all the best, Sinclaair