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Moving and Resizing partitions /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda4 as needed where NMIS VM is using Traditional Partitions
This should not be necessary with regards to the NMIS VM and requires more thought, effort and skill to achieve.
For example, one could consider adding a third disk (dev/sdc) to the NMIS VM and moving the /home directory to its own mountpoint on this third disk as an alternative to growing partitions on disk 1 (/dev/sda).
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