Can't login elementary OS Hera

isaamthegreat · April 30, 2020

Hello everyone

Actually I am new to linux and just wanted to try it.

So instead of live boot I installed it side by side with windows.

But I am not able to sign in to my elementary is account now. When I enter my password, The screen blanks out for a few seconds and then bad to login screen.

I searched the internet and came to a conclusion that my storage is full( actualy it was my fault I gave only 10GB space to elementary OS)

I tried cleaning temporary files using the following commands

sudo apt-get autoremove

sudo apt-get clean

sudo aptitude purge ~c

rm -v -f ~/.cache/thumbnails/*/*.png ~/.thumbnails/*/*.png

These commands worked before when I first encountered the problem(this is the second time).

Then I thought of just extending my linux partition.

So I logged into windows and used a partition tool to create a partition just before and after my linux partition and was successful but when I tried merging the two partitions I failed as it was disabled by the gui of the software( I made the new partition in the same format as my linux partition i.e. ext2)

So now I need help to increase the size of my linux partition please help me!!

And I don't want to reinstall as it has some important data....