Increase Partition Size Ubuntu 14.04

Question

I want to partition /dev/sda5 and merge the unallocated space with /dev/sda6. How to do it? I've searched for many ways to do it but I couldn't understand much to proceed. Please help!!

Here is the snapshot of my GParted window.

Solution

Boot from gparted live cd http://gparted.org/livecd.php

• If you dont't want to have /dev/sda5 partition any more right click on it and remove - this 100MB of data will be lost. (You can't do this right now because it is mounted). Right click on /dev/sda6 and resize.

• or down size /dev/sda5 and then resize dev/sda6

Be aware that there is always risk, so make backups

Comments

[g_p]

What do you mean by "partition /dev/sda5". Do you want to create a new partition in /dev/sda5 or want to completely merge it in /dev/sda6 ?

[dushyantashu]

I want to create a new partition in /dev/sda5 and merge it with the /dev/sda6