Hey everyone! When I set up my OpenSUSE Tumbleweed system, I created separate partitions for home and root. Now I'm facing a bit of a dilemma: I gave the root partition way too much space (about 600GB out of my 2TB drive) and I'm running low on space for my home partition. What's the quickest and easiest way to either reclaim some of that 600GB or merge the home and root partitions without messing everything up? I'm using Btrfs for both partitions.
3 Answers
Since you're using Btrfs, it's not super necessary to keep separate partitions. It might have been more efficient to just have one partition and then create subvolumes for root and /home. That way, the sizes wouldn't matter as much. But if you want to merge or adjust them now, just boot from a live USB and shrink the root partition, and then you can allocate that space to home.
You can use a tool like GParted to shrink the root partition and then add that free space to your home directory. If you're comfortable with command line, you can also try using `btrfs device add /dev/sda3 /home` to incorporate a newly created partition into your home. Just make sure to substitute `sda3` with the actual partition you're adding.
There's always the option of reinstalling your OS. It might seem drastic, but sometimes starting fresh with the right partitioning schemes can save you a lot of headaches down the road!
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