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[SOLVED] how to increase the /home partition
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I'm pretty sure you're going to have to use a live USB. You can't modify a partition while it's mounted and you can't unmount a partition that's in use.
! thank you, but maybe you can tell me, how can I do it on a live system, please?
Use a live image with gparted (most normal distros come with it) start it and the gui should be pretty self explanatory.
Don't do it on a live system.
Do it live, you’ll be fine, I do it literally once a week on production systems for over 20 years. The issue is yourself, make sure you’re well read.
Use cfdisk and just edit the partitions.
Please note that if you do this without first resizing the filesystems on the partitions, you are very likely to lose data. You cannot safely shrink a mounted partition.
Edit: oh you mean booted from external media, not an online system. Use gparted. https://gparted.org/