#Have two partitions how do I merge them?

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rapid marsh
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In the image my / root directory has for some reason a 20gb partition and my /home directory has another partition with the rest of the space. I'm not sure what I've done when installing arch initially but is there a way to sort of merge these two partitions together?

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Idk if you guys can see in the devices section there is two partitions labeled

wanton steeple
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i recommend you backing up everything from home partition, deleting it, extending root partition, and moving everything back to home directory

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like, really copy whole user folder to somewhere, and then, after extending, copy it back to /home

broken mica
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If home is less than half full you could also:

  1. Resize home to be as small as possible without data loss
  2. Expand root into the free space
  3. Copy the files to root
  4. Delete the home partition
  5. Expand root to fill the free space
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It's still best to make a backup though

worldly hearth
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Don't forget tu modify your fstab and regen the initramfs if you go changing your partition layout, or the system won't be bootable

brave roost
broken mica
wanton steeple
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Yes lol

brave roost