Topic: Can I use GParted to fix my Ubuntu 18.04 Installation?
Installed XUbuntu 18.04 64-bit on laptop with 2 drives but installation did not go as planned. Laptop is also duel boot with Windows-10. Xubuntu is the same as regular Ubuntu but uses the XFCE Desktop rather than Gnome. While I did make an empty 169 GB partition on my 2nd drive, Ubuntu didn't use it and stuffed everything: including all data onto the little bitty boot drive. Both OS's (Windows & Ubuntu) were working fine until I discovered Ubuntu was "out of room" to install a necessary application.
System drive specs are:
drive 1 (boot) a 128 GB flash card which also boots Win-10 using 91.08 GB
Xubuntu 18.04 {same as Ubuntu but XFCE Desktop}
using 27.34 GB, mount point " /"
drive 2 (Also a SSD) Samsung 860 Evo 1TB with a 762 GB partition for Windows stuff
and a 168.95 "unallocated block" I believe I made for Ubuntu to use ext4
The following screen shots are from "GParted" under which I booted my computer (with a CD). I would like to format the 168.95 GB "unallocated block" to ext4 and add it to Ubuntu which is out of room to run programs. While it would be wonderful to have a separate data partition for Ubuntu to use, I don't know how I can do that.
I guess if I simply format the 168.95 GB block ext4 and add it to Ubuntu under the mount point / then Ubuntu will simply see a lot more room in which to install & run programs?
How can I do that **without** erasing my Windows or my Ubuntu installations? I do not want to do a new install if possible as I've some complex engineering programs running on Ubuntu.