Hello.
I want to increase / (sda1) and the first thought is to delete the swap account (15GB ram) and transfer it to sda1.
Another option is to get a new ssd and set ~50 GB for / and the rest leave it as it is.
Does anyone have another suggestion?
Thanks in advance.
Hi @joe-77,
I’d recommend this. It had the benefit of greatly improved speed as well. But I’d recommend a bigger / as that leaves more wiggling room. I have a 250GB SSD myself, and it works like a charm. See below for more details:
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/dev/sda6 and the swap area before and the grey area before that look like a mbr type partition scheme.
everything beyond /dev/sda1 is on extended partition
the grey thing is in your way
sda1 is a normal partition, sda2 with everything else in it is an extended partition - you can’t separate out the swap from it and give it to sda1
You’d probably need to move/shrink the the whole sda2 (if that is possible) before you have space on sda1 to grow it.
where is /home??? 
likely on /
as in: no separate /home
or on a different drive …
It is how I do it, too - no need to decide beforehand how much to give to /home
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My /home is on a separate hard drive. See below:
$ lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINTS
sda 8:0 0 4.5T 0 disk
└─sda1 8:1 0 4.5T 0 part /home/mirdarthos/Downloads
/home/mirdarthos/virtualbox
/home/mirdarthos/Video
/home/mirdarthos/Pictures
/home/mirdarthos/Music
/home/mirdarthos/KeePass
/home/mirdarthos/Documents
/home/mirdarthos/Boostnote
/mnt/5TB
sdb 8:16 0 3.6T 0 disk
└─sdb1 8:17 0 3.6T 0 part
nvme0n1 259:0 0 232.9G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 7.8G 0 part [SWAP]
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 224.6G 0 part /
└─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 500M 0 part /boot/efi
In the past I have done a lot of crazy things like this…deleting the swap and then moving it to / with success and without any problems but now I will probably buy a new ssd and do it from the beginning “as it should be”
Ok! Thanks guys the decision has been made…
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Normally, you need a SSD with a size of 512GB for each OS.
250GB are perfect for me.
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