I have a HDD capacity of 1.32 TB. I have more space left unused in my / partition. I want to extend /home by shrinking / without losing any data.
184
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?
26
How can I expand/resize my extended partition (sda3) with unallocated free space to the left of it? I want this to be able to expand my / partition (sda5).
7250
Is there a way to increase my existing "swapfile" without having to destroy and re-create it? I would like to up my swap space from 1GB to 2GB.  Currently it is set up as such:  $ sudo swapon -s Filename                Type        Size    Used    Priority /swapfile               file        1048572 736640  -1 $ ls -lh /swapfile -rw------- 1 root root 1.0G Nov  9  2016 /swapfile   I'm using Ubuntu 14.04.
112536
I have separate / and /home partitions, of which both use ext4 as their filesystem. How can I merge them, and what is the easiest way?
12266
I wanna create a new partition from the existing root partition.My root partition is about 250GB.I wanna create a new partition say 150 GB taking space from this root partition.Can anyone help me with the procedure on doing this?  output: fdisk -l  karthick@karthick:~$ sudo fdisk -l [sudo] password for karthick:   Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x28219744  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *           1          61      487424   83  Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary. /dev/sda2              61       30395   243650561    5  Extended /dev/sda5              61         124      498688   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda6             124         186      498688   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda7             186       30395   242651136   83  Linux
96542
I'm absolutely blown away by how impossible this task appearing to be. I've been through probably a hundred separate Google search results, every single one explaining how to "right click the volume and click extend". Well guess what, the extend button is greyed out. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management:    I can't use the Windows snipping tool with a context menu open (and my keyboard lacks a print screen button), but believe me when I say that the extend button is greyed out when right clicking the Windows 8 partition. I've tried using DISKPART.exe too:    Would anybody care to fill me in on why Windows is refusing to extend the partition? What will I have to do in order to extend the partition with the remaining 140GB on the drive?
12022
I have two drives on my computer that have the following configuration:  Drive 1: 160GB, /home Drive 2: 40GB, /boot and /   Unfortunately, drive 2 seems to be dying, because trying to write to it is giving me errors, and checking out the SMART settings shows a sad state of affairs.  I have plenty of space on Drive 1, so what I'd like to do is move the / and /boot partitions to it, remove Drive 2 from the system, replace Drive 2 with a new drive, then reverse the process.  I imagine I need to do some updating to grub, and I need to move some things around, but I'm pretty baffled how to exactly go about this. Since this is my main computer, I want to be careful not to mess things up so I can't boot.
68982
How can I merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition ? I'm having trouble moving this unallocated space to the Linux portion. Here is my partition space:  (source: )
31198
I just noticed that the root partition of my not-so-long-ago configured server is only 5gb  thats not much seeing as i allready use 4gb and still need to install a lot of things...  i was foolish enough to use the default config from OVH assuming they know their stuff :P  since i have some data on the data partition it would be a pain in the ... to backup and reconfigure it all  is it possible to repartition the drive to use a new part of the drive say 15-20gb without data loss ? by simply copying the root partition to a new place (from sda2) ? i can live with loosing the 5gb of the start of the drive :P    heres df -h  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1             5.0G  3.9G  897M  82% / tmpfs                 998M     0  998M   0% /lib/init/rw udev                   10M  144K  9.9M   2% /dev tmpfs                 998M     0  998M   0% /dev/shm /dev/sda2             226G  7.2G  208G   4% /home   and fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x0000db26     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *           1         653     5242880+  83  Linux Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.    &lt;== now this is bad.. thx OVH :F /dev/sda2             653       30336   238426112   83  Linux /dev/sda3           30336       30401      526016   82  Linux swap / Solaris
120500
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
122335
I have some free disk space on the left of my ubuntu (sda5)  What is best solution to extend sda5 ?  I can    copy sda3 or sda5 with dd to bigger disk. delete sda3,5,swap create sda3,5,swap dd original partition.   Not sure how to do it properly.  May be there is a simpler solution.
17576
What I am trying to accomplish is to shrink my C drive by 50 GB and make that 50 GB into a new partition to install windows 8 on.   In Disk Management it shows I have Disk 0 with 4 partitions :    SYSTEM (199 MB) C (909 GB) Recovery (D) (21 GB) HP_TOOLS (102 MB).    (Unfortunately I cant include the picture because I dont have 10 rep on this site).   And the issue I have is that when I right click on C to shrink the partition it says that the shrink space available is only 297 MB, when at the top of the screen it indicates that C has 472 GB of free space. Why is it not allowing me to shrink more than 297 MB?
50052
I am not able to expand my Ubuntu partition even though I have unalloacted space adjacent to it. Can someone help me please?
33546
I'm trying to move some data over and to start with I'd like to make sure that the size is ok. I run into a problem however, if I check the folder with   du -sh  myfolder/ 780M    myfolder/   but   du -sh * .. 71M     myfolder ..   I thought it might be something to do with hidden files but this particular folder does not have any inside.  Am I missing something?
115089
I have installed an Ubuntu server on a VMWare workstation with a space of 20GB storage as seen below:    After the installation I've attached another 40GB worth storage to the existing Ubuntu server installation (seen below):    Now I want to add this 40GB to my / (root) directory it mean's  I want that my / directory became to 60G , like it will be resize from 20G to 60G (20G + 40G), i don't know what should i do, can any body help me ?  , my df -h result shows;  root@Userver:~# df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1        18G  900M   16G   6% / udev            990M  4.0K  990M   1% /dev tmpfs           400M  308K  399M   1% /run none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none            999M     0  999M   0% /run/shm none            100M     0  100M   0% /run/user root@Userver:~#   it must be 60G !  i have no graphic mode, then i can't use Gparted tools, i'm just have ssh access !
93333
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.
20706
I have two partitions, one of them has a file system and the other is unallocated.  How to merge two partitions?