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Old 11-17-2015, 12:10 PM   #1
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Merging Partitions


How can I merge 2 partitions using Gparted. I installed Zorin OS beside Mint 17.1 and decided I didn't care for it and formatted that partition. My H/D is 1 T, and have 2 partitions being 512G /dev/sda 1 and 1 being 419G /dev/sda2. Is it possible to merge these 2?

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Old 11-17-2015, 12:31 PM   #2
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Your gparted output shows that you only have a 500G drive. sda1 is 512M, not 512G, it's just an EFI boot partition. sda2 is the bulk of your drive. If you did have another OS installed, it wasn't on sda.
 
Old 11-17-2015, 12:47 PM   #3
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Yes, GParted shows it is only 512M. But my active OS is on sda2?
 
Old 11-17-2015, 12:59 PM   #4
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Yes

sda1 is a boot partition
sda2 is your main filesystem
sda3 is swap

And that's the entire drive, there's nothing to merge.
 
Old 11-17-2015, 03:40 PM   #5
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My previous laptop was 1T, my new one is 500GB...duh.
 
  


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