GParted

Suppose you have a dual boot system of Windows and a linux operating system and you need to repartition the drive or maybe expand the storage on the linux os, with Gparted you can do this

Requirements

• A USB stick (gen 3 with a live os environment). Learn how to get a usb with a live OS running from here
• Enough storage on your machine

Setting up the windows machine

• Open disk manager
• Select the disk where you need to expand the linux os
• Click shrink

Live booting into OS

• Shutdown the PC
• Use the live boot usb environment, doesn’t matter what sort of linux OS you are running. But we are assuming you are using arch as per the manual.
• Install gparted via this command

  1	sudo pacman -Syu gparted

Working with gparted

• Open the application
• Click on the the EFI Partition
  • Right click and press Resize/Move
  • Move the storage unit towards the left side
  • Ensure the EFI Partiton is just moved and not resized
• Click on the Arch partition
  • Right click and press Resize/Move
  • Expand the storage space to consume all of the unallocated storage space
• Verify and click apply WARNING: Data corruption may occur if incorrectly done, always back up your data

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Post gparted

• Shut down the system
• Remove your USB stick
• Boot into your dualboot os
• Open a terminal and type in df, check if the storage is increased
• congratulations, you have shifted storage allocations using gparted and expand your total storage in one of your OSes