Hello! I have a /home partition that is almost full, and there is another partition nearby with a lot of free space. I would like to reduce the size of this neighboring partition and add the freed space to /home. I would like to do this safely, without using a Live USB or bootable flash drive. Is this possible?

upd: gparted just worked(through a live usb stick)! Sometimes I try to use symlinks, but not this time :) Thanks everyone!

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    3 days ago

    This is one of the reasons I put /home on a separate ssd. If I want to upgrade, which has happened, I can just format the new one and copy my /home contents over preserving ownership and permissions, then it’s as easy as changing fstab and rebooting. No headache, but keep your old drive around for a while unaltered just in case you find out the new one is faulty.

    / is also ssd (same drive as /boot/efi) and includes the rest of the standard locations. Anything beyond that can be ssd or hdd as speed isn’t critical for longer storage.