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by Pierre » Fri Jan 26, 2018 9:09 am
so the resize option is greyed out - - but what about the Delete Option ? is that greyed out / does work ?
you have an issue in resizing sda5 as the /swap partition sda6 is in the middle.
if you can, use that Delete option to Delete sda3 AKA that NTFS partition.
& then you will be able to re-size sda2 - - the Extended Partition .. to the RHS of itself.
then Move sda6 more to the RHS as well.
Finally re-size sda5 to the RHS as well.
- this will all take some time to achieve and does come with some risk, too.
you can use Gparted, to achieve all of this moving about.
( you will also need to use the Gparted, on the Live Boot Environment )
if you don't have much Data on this LinuxMint System,
then it may be quicker to just Erase & re-install the whole LinuxMint again.
if you do go this way,, then using Gparted from the Live Environment:
- erase All the existing partitions
- create 2 -3 New Partitions for the New System, with maybe a 4th partition for a NTFS / DATA partition.
then, using the 'something else' option in the Installer Menu,
and point the Installer to each partition in turn,
with the marking of each partition for / root,, /home,, /swap,, and leave the 4th partition to later on.
& then click on Next to continue with the rest of the Installation.

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