I made an unallocated partition in windows, then I want to give more space to my ubuntu (Which has about 19gig right now). So, I have the following in my GParted app:  Then when I right click on partition /dev/sda6 and click on resize/move , there is no space left to add:  Any idea?
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Previously, I have installed Windows 7 on my 320 GB laptop with three partitions 173, 84 and 63 GB each. The 63 GB partition was where the Windows was installed. The rest were for file containers.  Now I changed my OS to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I installed Ubuntu by replacing the entire Windows 7 on the 63 GB partition. The rest of the partitions remain as an NTFS Windows partition and I can still access them both (the 173 and 84 GB partitions).  Now I want to change the two partitions of Windows into an Ubuntu format partitions plus most importantly, I want to extend the 63 GB partition to more than a 100 GB because at the moment I am running out of disk space. Whenever I try to install any application, especially using wine, it always complains for a shortage of disk space.  How do I do the extending activity before I entirely format my laptop again and lose all the important files on my partitions?
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I plan on installing Ubuntu 19.04 and give it 100 GB of my 256 GB SSD space and leave the rest for Windows as I would primarily be using Ubuntu.     A. Now, as I plan to install a lot of applications in Ubuntu, should I give more space to the / partition than the home partition? (Or maybe even drop the /home altogether?).    B. I have another 128 GB SD card for files like photos, audio and video files. Please suggest me the optimal partitioning for the use case.    C. Also, I have 8 GB of RAM so what should be the optimal swap partition size?    D. How would the distribution be if I choose "install Ubuntu alongside Windows" option?
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I have just got a new laptop, It is running Windows 7 Home Premium.  I have shrunk the windows partition to give me some empty space and now I want to install ubuntu.  From Windows my partitions look like:   So now in the ubuntu live cd If I hit install and go manual the partitioner looks like   So I thought I could just select the empty space and be away laughing, but when I hit it I get
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How can I add new logical partition?  I already have an extended partition, so I tried to use GParted to add a new logical partition.   I tried to resize the extended partition, but such an option is not available. I tried to add a new logical partition but it only gave primary partition options.
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I first noticed an issue when trying to install Linux Mint 14 as a third OS alongside Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 - I was unable to create another partition to install Mint to.  Poking around, I realised that I had reached the limit of primary partitions: (from left to right of the table) 1) a ~100 MB primary partition that I meant to use for storing Grub files but never got down to, 2) a 25 GB extended partition, with the entire partition containing an ext4 Ubuntu partition, 3) a ~513 GB partition containing Windows 7, 4) some ~50 GB of unallocated space, and finally 5) a 4 GB swap partition.   I decided to wipe off the first ~100 MB partition, which I didn't need anyway. This brought me to a dilemma, however: as Ubuntu, during initial installation, had created an extended partition for itself, which meant that I could not create any more. Having an extended partition for Ubuntu is virtually useless as there is only enough space to contain Ubuntu itself, and the benefits of extended are worthless here. And if I go ahead and install Mint now, I would face the same issue of too many primary partitions in the future should I want to create any more.  What I'd really like to do is this: convert the current extended partition into a normal primary partition, and create a new extended partition in the unallocated space for all future partitions. Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks in advance!
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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 want to resize my root partition using Gparted but before doing it I want to make sure I'm doing it correctly.  Here is a screenshot of my GParted:    So, my question is:  Assuming I launch Ubuntu from a LiveCD and I get to run GParted how should I give space from the home folder to the root folder knowing that the SWAP is in the middle?  What is the correct process to minimize the risk of screwing up?
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I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed inside of Windows using . I am running out of space on my Ubuntu disk (currently  405.1 MB free). I have a 180 GB hard drive and when I installed Ubuntu I only allocated 10 GB to it.   How can I resize my disk to give Ubuntu some more space?
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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 a 320GB hard drive currently partitioned as below:     A long time ago, a computer expert formatted my hard drive like this because I wanted to install Ubuntu. I'm now ready to do this, but I'll never need so much free space (103.09GB). I want to enlarge the D:\ volume because it already has lots of data on it.  I know that when I open diskmgmt.msc, I could possibly enlarge the D:\ volume using some free space from the unformatted 103.09GB volume, because the program offers me the option to enlarge. However I'm afraid that I might lose data doing this.  Is it possible to enlarge the partition with this Windows 7 tool or am I better using GParted via "Try Ubuntu" on my Live CD? Would either of them cause data loss in this scenario?
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I was installing ubuntu 12.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially my partition was of size 100+GB and i created another partition out of it of size 15GB (EXT4). Now the moment I changed this partition structure my original partition got lost along with its data and I am left with 50GB partition and 50GB unallocated free space.   Now the data that I have lost is meant a lot to me and I want to recover that data. So is there any way I can recover it? And I haven't checked "format" option while resizing the partition.
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On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions    How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?  The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the C partition    Deleting the free partition gives the following error     There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation
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I have 320 GB hard drive which is partitioned as follows:   / is 16 GB, and is reiserfs /home is 300 GB, and is reiserfs swap is 4 GB   Now I want to install Windows and have a dual-boot system, but I don't have a free partition. I have more than enough free space on the /home partition, though, and I've heard about tools like resize_reiserfs, so my question is, can I shrink that partition to 280 GB and create a new 20 GB partition on which to install Windows, and what is the best way to do it?
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I am experiencing some weird issue lately. I am using this machine as a web server. When I try to write a file in a directory it says there is no more space. I deleted some files and it worked for a little while. After few minutes I get the problem again:  root@web1:/home# mkdir test mkdir: cannot create directory ‘test’: No space left on device root@web1:/home# df -h Filesystem             Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/web1-root   43G  4.5G   37G  11% / none                   4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev                   3.9G  4.0K  3.9G   1% /dev tmpfs                  798M  828K  798M   1% /run none                   5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none                   3.9G     0  3.9G   0% /run/shm none                   100M     0  100M   0% /run/user /dev/sda1              228M   91M  126M  42% /boot /dev/sdb1              197G   75G  113G  40% /home   df -i reports a partition with 100% usage:  root@web1:/home# df -i | grep 100% /dev/sdb1 13107200 13107200 0 100% /home
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I have a 500 GB HDD in my laptop, but when I add up the partitions, they take up 465GB, and there are no unallocated spaces anywhere. Where did that 35GB go?  This is what my HDD looks like in the Windows partition manager:    As you can see, the space used is 0.6 + 0.3 + 409.19 + 37.25 + 2.79 + 15.53 = 465.66GB. On the left, Windows does indeed report the size of the drive as being 465 GB, but I know for a fact that this is a 500GB HDD, unless Newegg, Ebay and Amazon all made mistakes. Can someone please help me get back the 35GB I'm entitled to?   Note: I do know that the HDD has 7 partitions, even if only 6 are shown. The one that you can't see is Microsoft Reserved, and is very small, so that's not what is missing.
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I have created an Ubuntu16.04 'Persistent Pendrive' which was working perfectly for about a month, but now it seems to be running out of space.  Specifically: I used the information in , see also , to create my Pendrive on a SanDisk 32GbUltra Flair and I've used it to run apache and php as a mini development server on various hardware.  However - I'm now getting 'out of space' errors when I try to run sudu apt-get update.  I was under the impression that any new software or changes would be applied to the persistent partition, not the OS partition.  I'm happy enough to start again, but has anyone else had this, or know how to prevent it?
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Here I want to merge unallocated space to ext4 partition. But during running in Ubuntu it is not allowed. Am I right? It has key picture. I must do that Ubuntu DVD booting from it and selecting try Ubuntu there with GParted, I must merge this unallocated part by right clicking on ext4 partition and then selecting shrink. Am I right?   Then for swap area I want to take 5GB from extended partition (which is now called D on Windows). Can I format this partition in Windows or should I use GParted? But in GParted it has key picture. Or in the same way should I do this during trying Ubuntu to merge unallocated space to ext4? Thank you for your answers.