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?

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Just move the boot to the left and merge

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how can i do that?

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Right click, resize/move.

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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.

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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

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Boot on GParted ISO. Moving your boot may bork grub, so you would need to chroot and update it

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You could leave it unallocated and have your drive usably last for a very very long time. Just consider it a 256 gig drive.

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yeah i know but i want to reclaim that unallocated space 'cause why not

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you can’t easily. you fucked up putting it there

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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?

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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 ?

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If the outcome will be the same then good. How can i do that?

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Just create a new partition, then in your home folder or somewhere else idk, create a folder and choose that as mount point.

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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.

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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

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