Resize+Move root and home partitions with GParted on the same drive

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Basically my machine is just 3 years old so I don't think sticking root to the end of the drive will affect it too much.. I mean.. it's working fine as it is now

Yes, it may very well be just fine that way so might as well try that first once you've made backups.  When doing this with GParted from live USB/DVD, do one operation at a time.  Move Root first, hit "Apply" to carry out move.  Then expand Home into resulting free space, hit "Apply" to carry that out.  Close GParted, shutdown live environment, cross your fingers and reboot.  If all went well system should boot as normal with new partition scheme.


If system doesn't boot, use live USB/DVD again to post back here.  Open a terminal and do the following.


List partition structure and partition UUIDs with these two commands and copy/paste full output back here:

Code:

sudo parted --list
sudo blkid

Mount the Root partition to live environment:

Code:

sudo mount /dev/sda3 /mnt

Display contents of the fstab file, which shows partitions to mount during boot process:

Code:

cat /mnt/etc/fstab

Copy/Paste full output of that last command back here as well.

Unmount the Root partition when done:

Code:

sudo umount /dev/sda3