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resizing root and home

pickarooney · 2011-01-23 20:46:11

Very simple Q - I have a 200GB disk split into 40GB (root) and160GB (home). /home is almost full and I have 25GB left on / which I won't need. Can I just boot to a Ubuntu liveCD and use gparted to resize both in one go without losing data?

23-01-2011 09:46PM

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Very simple Q - I have a 200GB disk split into 40GB (root) and160GB (home). /home is almost full and I have 25GB left on / which I won't need. Can I just boot to a Ubuntu liveCD and use gparted to resize both in one go without losing data?

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