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I was a fool. I thought setting the boot, root, user, and home partitions apart would be a good idea, and ease up on the upgrade pains (like a few articles told me). But it's only been a pain from the beginning. Now i have Kubuntu 12.10 Beta, and want to upgrade to the latest official release. However, i was wondering if it's possible to somehow re-partition my Kubuntu setup, so that all the separate partitions were all on one partition, without losing data.

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Is it possible to backup all the files in a Linux distro from multiple partitions, and restore it all to one? The Swap partition needs to be separate...I know that much. I just wish to undo this error in my judgment, without having to re-install my programs all over again.

Is any of this possible, or is my hope unjustified?

Tarek Ramadan
2012-11-01 16:50:23
susendeep dutta this is the best answer
Aniket Singh
2012-11-01 13:01:52
u should go with susendeep dutta answer coz its working.
Douglas Mutay
2012-11-01 09:36:33
Yes it's somewhat possible by using GParted to resize your partitons. Just make sure you make a backup of all your data. Good luck
Pwince Khan
2012-11-01 14:37:26
thats what susendeep dutta said
Naveen Kumar
2012-11-02 13:33:06
worked for me too.............
susendeep dutta
2012-11-01 07:24:24
Visit the link below -http://askubuntu.com/questions/174272/merge-all-split-partition-into-rootIt says that to backup all the data present in those different partitions and restore them after installing stable version of Linux.You can use GParted to resize your partitons after backup has been created -http://www.howtogeek.com/114503/how-to-resize-your-ubuntu-partitions/
Keefe Kingston
2012-11-04 02:37:36
Thanks for your help :)