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Now if you already have enough space, you can skip the next step of shrinking any partition to get the space available.

If you already have backups in your place then you are good to go, but If you don't then you can follow along from this tutorial to create a backup using tar command. Backup, Backup, and BackupĪlways take a backup before shrinking/expanding or doing any configurations on your partitions. In this blog, I will be sharing how I was able to do the same quickly as possible. My scenario was I wanted to shrink the /home partition and use that space to increase root partition size.

I recently was in the need of extending the root partition size on my system and spent quite some time figuring out the approach to follow in doing so without losing data.