I recently removed windows 10 from my pc, how can i merge the unallocated space with /dev/nvme0n1p5? There’s the boot partition between so i can’t just adjust one of them and merge with the other using the resize/move button. How can i do it?
Just move the boot to the left and merge
how can i do that?
Right click, resize/move.
To add on to this, don’t click the handles on the boot block, click and drag the entire boot block itself. You’ll be able to move the boot partition to the left, then you can extend your main partition.
i’ll try this as soon as i have the time to flash the live iso. Btw i think i already tried it many times but it didn’t work. I’ve even watched tutorials. It just does nothing
It shouldn’t do “nothing”. Once you press apply, it’s possible you get error messages, but it shouldn’t say it’s complete and do nothing. That would be a big bug!
So, I’ve had it not work before, usually for odd reasons. One thing to try is to delete the other partition, then apply, then try to move it.
Resize/move is finicky though.
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I moved the boot parition successfully but i’m afrad that it’s gonna break my system somehow. Do i have to reinstall the grub? How? And by the way now that the two partitions are close together if i try to resize/move the “new Partition #1” i can’t expand it nor move it anywhere, same thing with /dev/nvme0n1p5
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Thanks i will try this as soon as i can
Just to add to what @skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl said, in case you break Grub, you might want to use Boot Repair on the live disk or something similar. Then you don’t have to deal with the terminal commands people have suggested to you.
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Yeah i already know that
Boot on GParted ISO. Moving your boot may bork grub, so you would need to chroot and update it
This might be possible by booting to a live disk and using gparted etc.
Don’t attempt to do anything while you’re using the Linux partition. That’s like trying to work on a car while it’s running.
Yeah, it’s not like gparted lets me to that by the way. If i want to make changes i need to boot into a live environment
If you’re worried about messing anything up the safest option is to simply format the unused space and set it’s mount point to some directory of your choosing.
Another option I think would be to clone your boot partition to the beginning of the unallocated space, clone your root partition to the unallocated space after that, delete the old partitions, grow your root partition, and then reinstall and reconfigure your boot loader. All this should be done from a portable Linux install.
If I may ask, why not just format it normally and mount it to a directory in your system? Why does it need to be merged ?
If the outcome will be the same then good. How can i do that?
Just create a new partition, then in your home folder or somewhere else idk, create a folder and choose that as mount point.
Backup and reinstall. Fiddling with partitions is a very easy way to brick a system.
Nah i won’t backup anything. I lost my soul trying to rice my ubuntu, no way i’m doing that
you can’t easily. you fucked up putting it there
Maybe you could by creating a new boot partition and then cloning the current one into that before deleting the original one and reconfiguring grub?
You could leave it unallocated and have your drive usably last for a very very long time. Just consider it a 256 gig drive.
yeah i know but i want to reclaim that unallocated space 'cause why not
