Mistake while working USB/partitions, Gparted.

[keos]

Hello,

I made some kind of mistake while doing the copy/paste of the systems to the USB, and I have now the remaining GB divided in 'two sections', partitions, how could I put together in one single partition the GB that I divided wrongly?:

[4.41GB - 6.55GB]

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Thanks for your advice.

[Charlie Brown]

If you mean to join sdb5 and sdb6:

Delete sdb5 (delete also sdb6, easier than resizing),
then move sdb3 to leftwards, then sdb4 to leftwards,
finally create a new one using the whole unallocated space on the right-most.

[keos]

If you mean to join sdb5 and sdb6:

yes, that is what i need to do, if it is possible, but ...

after deleted this two partitions:

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...then move sdb3 to leftwards, then sdb4 to leftwards

I don't know now 'how to do' this step, or maybe I do not understand ...

[MXRobo]

OR , as an alternative - just expand 5 & 6 onto 3 & 4 respectively. - ???

[keos]

as an alternative - just expand 5 & 6

[Eadwine Rose]

Move left move right, you can do this easily by dragging the partitions in the image bar.

If that is what CB means, I am not giving any guarantee about data preservation.

[Charlie Brown]

... don't know now 'how to do' this step ...

Just right-click on them (one by one) : "Resize/move" then you can even "grab" the partition (click the rectangle and hold the button and move to left) ... "Apply".

First on sdb3 then sdb4.

[keos]

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[Charlie Brown]

It seems you shrank them rather than moving. If you grab from the edges then it's resized, you needed to grab from the middle or so.

Delete the "New Partition" , too.

Then "move" sda3 to left (grab the rectangle from the middle after selecting "resize/move")... "Apply"

But once you do it, this time enlarge it a bit (grab from right-edge) cause otherwise it's almost full, no enough free space), do the same for sda4, move, then enlarge a bit.)

In fact, after moving it you can enlarge sda3 to right-most , then no need to move sda4, just enlarge it a bit to rightwards.

[keos]

you needed to grab from the middle or so.

the partition is now unallocate', after right click the only option is 'New' which is taking me back to 'create new partition' > ext4, etc.

EDIT:

and if I formate to ext4, then:

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*there must be some way to completely remove that space/partition of 4.41GB so that these gigabytes can be automatically moved to the final partition section that now occupies the 39.99BG, because any resizing what it does is to fractionate it, it does not remove ... I'm going in circles, or maybe there is no how, do I explain better now?

I'll be back tomorrow, thanks.