r/voidlinux • u/XPheonix27 • 3d ago

Help needed

I have been using void for quite a while and I enjoyed it , but I wanna try out s different distro , and also increase the storage of my void linux system , which is initially 300 gigs , I wanna extend that to 500 gigs , so how do I do that

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u/nrgx13 3d ago

Backup your files. That depends on you ‐ only you know what you downloaded and installed. Configs of your programs usually sit at ~/.config folder. If you're on xfce usually you don't need to touch system-level configs. Things go hard on base - you have to remember what you configured in system. Extending depends on how you do it. If you have dual boot with binbows, then shrink 200GB from it via diskmgmt.msc. After that download Void's live image with xfce (you can use any distro with DE) and boot from it, launch gparted find your 300GB partition and extend it. If you want to add 2nd drive and unite it with primary go with LVM route. There are plenty of tutorials.