Hello there so i ran a dual boot of win 11 and garuda linux and i allocated 80GB to the partition for garuda linux but that amount of storage is getting less for me at this point so i would like to ask how to increase the size of my partition.
Granted that there are plenty of tutorials about it on the internet, in a few words you should:
- boot from a live usb
- use KDE partition manager (or even better Gparted) to shrink the Windows partition (when not mounted) and extend the btrfs Garuda partition
- the two partitions should be adjacent (otherwise some additional work might be needed)
- if all goes well, finally do a btrfs balance of the btrfs partition
For details look for a tutorial (also because we don’t have any information here 
)
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It is best to do this in M$, as it will show you the minimum size required by Windows to be able to work with Windows.
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M$ ? what is that
Micro$oft 
People just use this short form for fun 
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i will look into this on youtube thanks for your reply 
pardon?
Please, no pictures, use
df -Th
in terminal and post as text like this for nice formatted output.
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df -Th
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ilesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 360M 3.5G 10% /dev/shm
efivarfs efivarfs 184K 170K 9.0K 95% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 3.9M 1.6G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /srv
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /var/cache
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /root
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /var/log
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 81G 72G 6.8G 92% /var/tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 3.9G 22M 3.8G 1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 256M 34M 223M 14% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 781M 346M 435M 45% /run/user/1000
can you tell which partition i would have to expand please
I see no place for that, there is no M$ partition to shrink.
Remove some files or check pacman cache, reduce the memroy to 1.
paccache -h
or use
cleanup
alias.
Maybe you forget to mount other volumes on /dev/nvme0n1p5 ?
df -Th
Dateisystem Typ Größe Benutzt Verf. Verw% Eingehängt auf
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /
devtmpfs devtmpfs 4,0M 0 4,0M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 6,8G 0 6,8G 0% /dev/shm
efivarfs efivarfs 434K 308K 122K 72% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs tmpfs 2,7G 1,8M 2,7G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /home
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /root
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /srv
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /var/cache
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /var/tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p8 btrfs 124G 14G 111G 11% /var/log
/dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 256M 51M 206M 20% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 6,8G 8,0K 6,8G 1% /tmp
tmpfs tmpfs 1,4G 85M 1,3G 7% /run/user/1000
/dev/nvme0n1p7 btrfs 302G 182G 119G 61% /run/media/sgs/i3wm
/dev/nvme0n1p6 btrfs 50G 24G 26G 48% /run/media/sgs/Hyprland
/dev/nvme0n1p5 btrfs 349G 242G 107G 70% /run/media/sgs/KDE
/dev/nvme0n1p3 ntfs3 129G 45G 85G 35% /run/media/sgs/Windows-SSD
For me is here /dev/nvme0n1p3 ntfs3 M$, and you must first shrink the M$ partition, do it in Win10/11, please.
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alright
If you want to use KDE partition manager, you should be able to clearly check the status like here
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/partitionmanager/partitionmanager/howto-resizepartition.html
With gparted
https://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dmoving-space-between-partitions
Save your data. It can be a “dangerous” operation for someone unfamiliar to the process. Save your data before you do anything else. Buena suerte!
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thanks, I will.
old snapshots should get cleaned out too, if you’ve been accumulating them.
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