How to Safely Resize Root Partition

Boot from live media.

  1. Copy paste your root partition to the unallocated space, align it to the left.
  2. Delete the old root partition.
  3. Move the swap and efi partitions to the right. This way, any subsequent resizes of root partition will not require moving these two partitions.
  4. Grow the new root partition.
  5. Chroot in, reinstall bootloader and regenerate grub.cfg.
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