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So I spent some hours reorganizing my partitions - 11 -> 12 hours of GParted work. During this time I removed the /swap partition; enlarged my '''/''' partition, it still had ~2GB of free space which should have been fine for the way I use my system. | So I spent some hours reorganizing my partitions - 11 -> 12 hours of GParted work. During this time I removed the /swap partition; enlarged my '''/''' partition, it still had ~2GB of free space which should have been fine for the way I use my system. | ||
A '''/swapfile''' [https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php | A '''/swapfile''' [[https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php/Swap#Using_a_Swapfile]] is to replace the /swap partition (see the previous link for the simple how-to on how to create a /swapfile). My /swapfile was located in the '''/''' partition. | ||
I also shrunk my /home partition as near as small as I could with the size of the data it was holding, so that I could then create a new partition where that data will reside in future. | I also shrunk my /home partition as near as small as I could with the size of the data it was holding, so that I could then create a new partition where that data will reside in future. | ||