Boot from the gparted live CD/USB. Never modify the partitions while you're using them.
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You can do this using gparted, however I would recommend you back everything up before you do it as this is very risky if you have not done it before, you can easily destroy all of your data.
Depending on the layout of your drive you would need to reduce the size of your windows partition. Be aware that you cannot increase the size of a partition from the start of the partition, only the end, so you may need to move your fedora partition to the left before your expand the partition to fill the available space
I would recommend you back everything up before you do it
that's my secret: I'm always backed up.
you would need to reduce the size of your windows partition.
Already done
so you may need to move your fedora partition to the left
What does this mean?
A disk is shown as a bar, each partition is 1 segment of the bar, if your Windows partition is located before your Linux one you would have to move the partition to the left of the bar after reducing the Windows one, because the partitions can only be extended to the right, so it will need a full partition moving to the left to get all of the newly empty space available, and then after moving you just expand the Fedora one.
Okay that worked, thank you
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i'm very new and don't know a lot, but i think gparted would let you accomplish this? and i think it'd work on fedora
Try gparted on a liveUSB, you don't wanna modify the partitions you're actively using because it can(read: will) result in data loss.
If you're willing to spend a little bit of time on it and actually know what's happening behind the scenes, read the man-pages for fdisk and do it manually from a TTY, but for cereal, use a liveUSB and ffs do NOT mount the filesystems first
Do you use Btrfs? With that you could extend the Fedora partition even though the free space is not where it should be