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http://askubuntu.com – Hi all, Currently I have partitions like the following:(Left to Right) '/' = 120gb /home = 100gb /media/data = 200gb Am using only the disk space available in /home. Currently am unable to use the disk space of '/' or /media/data . I want to merge all three partitions into the '/'. But I have my 80gb of data in /home. How do I merge all the partitions into '/' without losing my data and not crashing my system? (HowTos)

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Submitted by funckax on 08/10/2012 – Made popular on 08/10/2012

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