I tried using GParted Live with a USB stick to free space from the Windows partition, but I realized my boot/efi and swap partitions are in the way between any unallocated space freed in the Windows partition and the root filesystem partition, so I’m not able to use the free space.
Is there a way to do this or should I just reinstall Manjaro?
There was a similar topic not long ago if you can find it.
As a general plan:
Backup your files. You are moving and resizing root to the left so it might go wrong
boot Win and shrink it from its volume manager. If you want to do snapshots/restore points of your manjaro, leave a bit more space this time. Think about the swap, and installation cache, and the logs too (+10 GB of what you initially planned). I would do 100GB if you can cut so much.
boot the live usb, delete the swap and ESP partition 7 (if the only thing you have there is manjaro boot loader, otherwise move it, and then read the guide how to recreate)
move the root to the left or resize to the left if it works
enlarge the root to the right, leave space for the ESP and swap, although you can also use swap file in the root if you want
Why not shrink partition 3, move partitions 7, 8 and 9 to the left and then enlarge partition 9.
Of course @gabrielgcma needs to shut down Windows properly, so partition 3 can be shrunk. But swap portions can moved easily.
@gabrielgcma btw. partition 7 can’t be your ESP partition. Every drive can only contain 1 ESP partition. If you have multiple drives, each drive can have its own ESP partition, but only 1 per drive. You can mount partition 7 to /boot/efi but it is not your ESP. Partition 7 is probably useless.
Theoretically yes but in practice it depends on the uefi. I made a wild guess because 500MB FAT is not useful for many things - it is either created by the OP as a second ESP, or it is from the windows boot or Dell recovery. But the OP should know best.
I actually have a very similar setup with windows and 2 esps and some recovery, except that i have no separate /home and my root is 130 GB.
Move partition 7 to the left → Move partition 8 to the left. → Move partition 9 to the left. => Then grow partition 9 to the right.You can add all steps to the queue in gparted and then run them by “Apply”.
And as always: Do it on a live session, not on the booted local installation.
… because MS has a more decent way in adjusting the NTFS filesystem. Nevertheless, usually Gparted does it good enough to keep Windoze booting & working. I did it also with Gparted once and after some complains Windoze booted without further problems. Nevertheless, if possible always use the Windoze tool.
