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I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my Windows partition by using GParted from a Live Ubuntu, but I'm unable to add the free space to the windows partition.

Screenshot of GParted: Screenshot of GParted

As shown in the above image, I reduced the size of my Ubuntu partition (nvme0n1p2) so as to use that free space in my windows partition (nvme0n1p4), but I'm unable to add that free space to Windows. Can anyone help me with this? I've checked similar questions before posting this, but none of them match my situation.

Edit (adding some context) - When I right click on the partition nvme0n1p3, all the options are greyed out (except New and properties). This renders me unable to move the free space to the end and add it to nvme0n1p4.

Brian Edwards
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!! It goes without saying that such partition operations should not be attempted without having backed up your important data !!

Move /dev/nvme0n1p3 and /dev/nvme0n1p4 to left so that free space is right adjacent to /dev/nvme0n1p4

gparted move partitions

You can use the Move/Resize option to shift the partitions at the right size of the unallocated space so that free space is right-adjacent to /dev/nvme0n1p4 (grab partition and drag/slide it).

move/resize dialog

IOW, move /dev/nvme0n1p3 and /dev/nvme0n1p4 partitions to get this:

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And then resize /dev/nvme0n1p4.