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How to reallocate disk space?
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You can do this using gparted, however I would recommend you back everything up before you do it as this is very risky if you have not done it before, you can easily destroy all of your data.
Depending on the layout of your drive you would need to reduce the size of your windows partition. Be aware that you cannot increase the size of a partition from the start of the partition, only the end, so you may need to move your fedora partition to the left before your expand the partition to fill the available space
Yup, not much you can do about that
that's my secret: I'm always backed up.
Already done
What does this mean?
A disk is shown as a bar, each partition is 1 segment of the bar, if your Windows partition is located before your Linux one you would have to move the partition to the left of the bar after reducing the Windows one, because the partitions can only be extended to the right, so it will need a full partition moving to the left to get all of the newly empty space available, and then after moving you just expand the Fedora one.
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