I want to extend my C: partition and I have freed 290 GB space.  But the Extend Volume option is still unavailable and grayed out, why can't I extend my C: 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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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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What is the difference between "extended" partitions and "logical" partitions on my hard disk? What's the need for each? I am using Linux
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I am in a frustrating situation - no matter how I try, gparted won't let me assign the empty space to the first partition:    The middle partition is blocking me from expanding /dev/sda1. I need to move partition /dev/sda2 to the end of the drive, like so (fabricated image):    Then I will be able to expand first partition:    How to do that? I assume data from /dev/sda2 must be physically copied to end of the drive.
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If I enable both hidden and system files, and then select them all while in the C:\ Drive, the properties window adds their data up to 220 GB. However, if I right click on the C:\ Drive itself and select properties, I have 300 more GB than what was shown previously.    Where is this other 300 GB of data coming from? Is it something vital to the OS? Is it something that's still hidden somehow?
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I have  a 220g partition with ubuntu. And a empty partition 100g. How can I expand the partition with ubuntu? I boot from liveCD, start gparted, sgrink 1 partition, and could't expand the 2 partition.
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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.
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Why don't I have this option?    here's my disk layout  sudo fdisk -l  Disk /dev/sda: 640.1 GB, 640135028736 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77825 cylinders, total 1250263728 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: 0x5b53cc54     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      409599      203776    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          409600  1153767021   576678711    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3      1216962560  1250050047    16543744    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4      1250050048  1250261679      105816    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)  Disk /dev/sdb: 4005 MB, 4005527552 bytes 32 heads, 63 sectors/track, 3880 cylinders, total 7823296 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: 0x20d8782d     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1   *          63     7822079     3911008+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
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According to  I just expand my sda4 to include unallocated space, my question is after create 2 new partitions sda7, sda8, do I need to move the swap partition to the most right of the disk? (I really don't know this, I saw  which moving the swap partition to the right side)  Thanks.
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I've tired a number of things to get this to work and I'm missing something.   I ran out of space on my 8gb bootable flash drive. I'm running 12.04 server. The drive has sda1 (primary 4gb), sda2 (extended 4GB) and sda5 (swap 4gb).  I tried copying old drive to new drive using ddrescue (whole drive copy) and then resizing on another linux box using gparted.  I made sda1 ~22Gb (75% of the drive) and used the remaining space for sda2 and sda5.  When I tried booting it I get to the GRUB menu and when I select the OS I get a message about not enough room or space.    Next try.    I dd'd the MBR of the new drive and then created sda1 - primary linux 83 (75% of sectors on drive), sda2 - extended 5 (25% - remaining sectors), sd5 - logical linux 82 swap (same sectors as sda2).  I then wrote the changes and exited fdisk.  I then ran ddrescue with the following command:  ddrescue -d -f -r3 /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1  (old drive copied to new drive).  It competed successfully.  I mounted the new copied partition and ran df to see the free space and it shows the same amount as the old small drive -97% used.  I thought I had to resize or something so I moved drive to other linux box and ran gparted.  Didn't find that the partiion needed resizing.    The new partition has the same UUID as the original but I think i might need to copy the old swap partition UUID to the new one and I don't know how - only how to randmly generate a new one.   So, where did I go wrong here. Am I close to getting this right?
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I have few partition like this:    And I want to take the unallocated partition and resize it to /dev/sda12. But when I try to do that:    I can't increase the size.  I have do it in Live Mode, and I have tried to the others partition, but still can't do it.  How do I solve this problem?
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In windows disk mgr I can see this. I have no option to shrink/expand any of the partitions.   Tried to delelete everything by DISKPART, but that's also not working:  DISKPART&gt; list disk    Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt   --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---   Disk 0    Online          111 GB  1024 KB   Disk 1    Online         7535 MB      0 B  DISKPART&gt; SELECT DISK 1  The disk you specified is not valid.  There is no disk selected.  DISKPART&gt;   How can I recover my sd card?
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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: )
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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.
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I apologize if this question has been answered previously.  I've checked through the "similar titles" but haven't exactly had any luck.  I'm aware of the problem and I know the solution, I simply don't know how to implement the solution properly.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  What I'm experiencing is a SMART failure 05 and I'm being warned that a disk failure is imminent.  My old partitions is what is causing the problem and the solution is to skip over the bad sectors via a new partition.  I have a 100gb hard drive, and I think it's safe to say that the first 20gb are borked in this regard.  How do I set up a partition outside of these first 20gb?  Would I designate this as "free space"?  Or something else?  Please be detailed (e.g. screen shots), I'm fairly computer literate but I'm a beginner when it comes to Ubuntu 12.04.  Thank you for your help!
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I have a computer harddisc with 3 NTFS partitions:  C /dev/sda1/ D /dev/sda2/ extended /dev/sda5/ E /dev/sda3/    C and E are both 10 GB and D is 55 GB.  I want to merge C and E (or rather expand C to 20 GB).  (E comes from shrinking D using gPARTED...).  I have tried to change the size of C in gPARTED in serveral ways...  Please help me!
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What is an extended partition? Why do I need to use it to install Ubuntu if I already have four partitions that are factory installed?