I'm trying to expand my root (/) partition in Ubuntu, but GParted will not let me change this. I've read several things about using the swap partition to accomplish this, but maybe I'm not doing this in the right order.  I'm booting from a live CD. I need to add my unallocated space to sda5. Can someone tell me the order in which I need to proceed? Thanks.
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I want to shrink my second (LVM) partition, in order to create a new partition in the newly freed space. I am using the Live CD to do so, because I know I can't resize/move this partition while it is in use. When I opened GParted in the Live CD, I realized that I could not resize the partition, because when I right-click it, the option "resize/move" is disabled.  I tried to unmount it, to "lazy" unmount it (umount -l /dev/sda2) but it didn't work.  A screenshot from GParted:
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I am running Ubuntu 12.04 on a 64-bit HP laptop with a 16 GB flash drive. I do not have a working hard drive right now. When I installed Ubuntu, I created a 2 GB swap partition on sdb1. I have since learned that swap partitions are generally a bad idea on flash drives, so I would like to use my swap space for my other partitions. You can see my partition scheme in the link below.    I have read that I just have to comment sdb1 out of the fstab file, boot from a GParted live CD, select swapoff for sdb1, delete/merge with other partition, and everything's good.  But, I've also read that messing with sdb1 can change the UUID of sdb2 or sdb3 and cause problems. Is this true? Does initramfs use swap at all?  Also, when I get Ubuntu running on my laptop with an internal hard drive, does the swap partition help that much? I have 6 GB of DDR3. Does the rule of 1.5xActual RAM still apply? It seems like quite a bit to me.  Thanks for the help!  UPDATE: I have removed swap. The process I followed is:   Right click swap partition in GParted and selected swapoff. Used # to comment the swap partition out of fstab. I tried to boot from a live GParted CD, but I kept getting an error, so I ran GParted in Ubuntu. Deleted swap partition in GParted. Unmounted /windows. Expanded /windows to take the remaining space. Mounted /windows.   The / and /windows partitions each kept their own names and UUIDs, and everything is running fine. I have never seen any swap space being used before, and I don't intend to use the hibernate function, so I think removing swap was a good idea.
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I have three partitions on my drive, arranged something like the following:   ___________ | 1 |  2 | 3| -------------   I wish to merge partitions 1 and 3.  Is there a way to do this, or do I have to manually "slide" partition 2 over to partition 3, and then merge the newly open space where partition 2 used to be?  Note: I do not have the space to copy partition 2 to partition 3 (2 is 200GB and 3 is 65GB).
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I have got a dual boot system here with a couple of partitions:     Windows 7 OS partition Another partition for office data One partition for Ubuntu And of course one 100Mb partition auto-made by Windows And just like Windows one swap partition by Ubuntu   Of course, I wanted to have a separate partition for /boot and /home which I have not got here, so I would like to do that if it’s possible. Can I install GParted in my system and create a new partition by shrinking my existing / partition, then mount /home under it somehow? I don't want to mess up my system. Some concrete advice required here.
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I have some unallocated space before my Windows 7 partition.    Can I move the Windows 7 partition so that the free space is after it instead than before it, and then extend the partition to use all of the currently unallocated space?
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I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu 16.04 (Windows being my other OS) two months ago to try it out. I want to allot more space to it on my hard drive. I was looking up tutorials, and I noticed that my filesystem names don't look anything like those in the tutorials. For example:  df -h   outputs:    How would I allot more space to Ubuntu (in layman's terms)?
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I want to extend my volume. However the unallocated space lies ahead of the volume. Is it possible to extend this volume without converting it to a dynamic volume?     I tried to use diskpart with the extend command but it doesn't work. Makes sense because the instructions says that the unallocated space has to be behind the volume.
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This question has been answered before in many places but I just need some confirmation with my specific setup. I have Linux Mint installed and I just want a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install to completely replace Mint. It's dual booted with Windows 7 and I want that to remain completely in tact.  Anyway, I'm currently running the Live CD installer. I've said I want to specify my own partitions and I'm at the following screen:     The list at the bottom expanded:     I confused by all the different partitions. Seems like I should just check the box beside sda5. But what about sda6? Do I just leave that alone?  Also just for confirmation, is the "right" way to replace Mint, or should I be deleting it first?
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 13.04 on my 24Gb MSATA SSD. In my laptop, I've also got a 500Gb SATA HDD. I realize that in order for this to work I need to put my /home directory on the 500Gb HDD.   I've tried installing it by creating a ext4 partition on the SSD and a 8Gb swap partition on my HDD. This resulted in an error saying something similar to Cannot install bootloader, please select an other location for the bootloader.   Now before I waste any more time trying to get it to work I'm going to ask a bunch of questions:   Where should I put the swap partition? How big should I make the swap partition? (I've got 12Gb RAM) My 500Gb HDD is currently in Raid mode. Should I change that (to AHCI or IDE)? Where should I put the bootloader if the error message occurs again? How do I make the home directory point to the HDD instead of the SSD? Can I configure Ubuntu to install software/packages on the HDD instead of the SSD?
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I have a Fedora 18 system installed on my hard disk, but upon installation I created 4 partitions for boot, swap, root and home, and now I want to install Windows on some unallocated space (I need it, don't judge me :D) but I'm limited to 4 primary partitions. Is there anyway I can change one of them do logical, or something else to empty one partition?  I can free up to 300 GB, which can hold all 4 partitions easily, in the extended partition that holds only home, if it is possible moving.  fdisk -l /dev/sda  Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes, 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000668e4  Device    Boot      Start     End       Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1 *         133120    1026047   446464    83 Linux /dev/sda2           1157120   8202239   3522560   82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3           8333312   113059839 52363264  83 Linux /dev/sda4           113190912 894853119 390831104 5  Estendida /dev/sda5           113324032 894722047 390699008 83 Linux   Of course, without excluding existing partitions/files.
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I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.  Can I use gparted to do this?  If so how?
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I want to format and set a single partition in an external hard drive with GParted (Ubuntu 12.04) and would like to set the Allocation Unit Size. I don't see any options to do this with GParted. Is there a way to set AUS in Ubuntu?
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I am not able to expand my Ubuntu partition even though I have unalloacted space adjacent to it. Can someone help me please?
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I have Ubuntu installed on a drive. The problem is it is running low on disk space. This is installed on vmware. I expanded the virtual drive and booted into ubuntu. But when I opened gparted(sudo gparted), the move/resize option is unavailable. This is the partition Ubuntu is installed on, but I need to resize it. Any ideas? I am comfortable using command line
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I'm encountering a problem with my HDD's partitions and can't resize it. I've described my problem and my system here: .  Now, from a more general perspective, I was thinking on whether it is possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD and use GParted in a live session to possibly go around that problem. Is that possible? I made a separate question as I'm interested in the possibility independently from my current problem.  You see, I only have one partition and that's mounted. When I use GParted through Ubuntu I don't get any error reports (unlike the case reported in the question linked above).  Thanks beforehand.
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How can I increase the size of the root partition of a system at runtime?   I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is also ext4), how can I add that unallocated space to the space allocated to the root partition without having to shutdown the server?
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I have a Laptop with 1TB hard disk space. I can allocate 100GB for Ubuntu. Currently there is only Windows 7 installed. I am new to Ubuntu &amp; am confused by terms like mount point, root partition, swap partition, etc. The doc over  gives some details, but I dont know what they mean. For installing Ubuntu I have shrunk 100GB from a drive &amp; now that space is unallocated. So what should I do now? In how many partitions should I divide that space &amp; what conventions should be followed. Should I do this in the Ubuntu installer or should I do all this before installing Ubuntu? Please I dont understand the terminologies used on that doc so please tell me in simple language. Thank You.