How can I allocate more SSD space for Ubuntu? [closed]

I need more space for my Ubuntu system in my disk. I have a swap memory partition between two spaces that I want to become one. I run Ubuntu on 50 GB (26 GB Free + 24 GB (Blue) Currently running system)

I have to make 50GB for the currently running system and start from the start of the partition.

What is the easiest way to do it?

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It is a good idea to backup everything, that you cannot afford to lose before continuing, because the following operations are potentially risky.

This is a method, that will not tamper with the head end of the root partition (and the swap partition) to make a /home partition in the unallocated space. (If you tamper with the head end of the root partition, you must also modify grub, the bootloader.)

• Create a partition with an ext4 file system.

• Copy the content of the current /home directory into it for example with rsync (first 'dry run' to check, then remove the n and do the real copy),

  sudo rsync -Havn /home/ /mount-point-of-the-new-partition

• Modify your /etc/fstab to make the system use the new partition as /home.

• When you see that things are working, you can remove the /home directory from the root partition, but watch out (make sure that you are deleting the correct data, and not the 'new home'.

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You may prefer to do these operations, when booted from another drive, for example a USB boot drive with Ubuntu. In that case the rsynccommand line will be different: Mount the internal drive's root partition and copy from it,

sudo rsync -Havn /mount-point-of-internal-drive-root/home/ /mount-point-of-the-new-partition