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Old 07-11-2014, 09:35 PM   #1
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Question Fedora 20 - Expand /home partition and shrink Win8 partition


Hi guys!

About one month ago, I was pretty much a newbie at Linux, and I decided to give about 320 GB for my /home partition. At that point, I was pretty sure that I was going to revert back to Win8, but one month later, there has been no sign of that. However, my /home partition needs at least 500GB for personal data (music, documents, videos, movies, etc.). But, I only have 320 GB, and I am not willing to put some stuff in the /(root) partition.

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After that, I decided to expand my /home partition to about 670 GB and keep my Windows 8 partition at 100 GB.

How would you expand and shrink the partitions without destroying any data. Also, it would be preferred if no live CD or USB was used, and if it wouldn't make me reinstall F20.

Outputs of useful commands:

`parted -l`
Code:
Model: ATA WDC WD10JPCX-24U (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End     Size    File system     Name                          Flags
 1      1049kB  1050MB  1049MB  ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag
 2      1050MB  1322MB  273MB   fat32           EFI system partition          boot, hidden
 3      1322MB  2371MB  1049MB  fat32           Basic data partition          hidden
 4      2371MB  2505MB  134MB                   Microsoft reserved partition  msftres
 5      2505MB  486GB   484GB   ntfs            Basic data partition
 8      486GB   492GB   5243MB  fat32           EFI System Partition          boot
 9      492GB   502GB   10.5GB  ext4
10      502GB   607GB   105GB   ext4
11      607GB   628GB   21.0GB  ext4
12      628GB   641GB   12.6GB  linux-swap(v1)
13      641GB   961GB   320GB   ext4
 6      961GB   988GB   26.8GB  ntfs            Basic data partition
 7      988GB   1000GB  12.6GB  ntfs            Basic data partition          hidden, diag

Last edited by lolzies; 07-11-2014 at 10:00 PM.
 
Old 07-12-2014, 10:40 AM   #2
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if there is room you can use gparted to resize the partitions. you will have to use some form of liveCD/DVD/USB as the partitions can not be mounted while you resize them.
 
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