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How can I merge the highlighted partition with the 500 GB unallocated space at the end of the drive? (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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This is an external ssd, so I'm not super worried about things going wrong.

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[–] BenM2023@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Copying all the data elsewhere and re-partition is still the right answer...

You could possibly get away with copying the data out of the last partition, deleting the last 3 and extending the other one then copying the data back but, as others have said, you seem to have rather too many partitions.

ETA: there is no way to merge ntfs and ext4 partitions anyway - even without the intervening partitions that are present here. Copy, destroy extend is the only way.