I have installed Ubuntu in a drive that has low disk space I need more space on that disk. How can I add more space to that disk?     NAME   FSTYPE LABEL            UUID                                 MOUNTPOINT  sda                                                                  ├─sda1 ntfs   System Reserved  6A60F08B60F05F6F                      ├─sda2 ntfs                    DE921B35921B119F                      ├─sda3 ntfs   Software & Study 04747C18747C0EA4                      ├─sda4                                                               ├─sda5 ntfs   Videos           E8B4589FB45871D4                      ├─sda6 ntfs   Audio & Natok    C616AD7C16AD6E5D                      ├─sda7 ntfs   SSSS             464C2B9B4C2B8531                      ├─sda8 swap                    ee80a977-2201-4144-b63a-53ac92557ab4 [SWAP] └─sda9 ext4                    1d5eb22e-590d-4773-abb5-80906f0709d0 / sr0                                        Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev            2.9G     0  2.9G   0% /dev tmpfs           591M  9.1M  582M   2% /run /dev/sda9        26G   21G  4.1G  84% / tmpfs           2.9G   77M  2.9G   3% /dev/shm tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock tmpfs           2.9G     0  2.9G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup cgmfs           100K     0  100K   0% /run/cgmanager/fs tmpfs           591M   76K  591M   1% /run/user/1000 /dev/sda3       127G  110G   18G  87% /media/sazib/Software & Study
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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've been wondering this for a while, why is there free space at the end of a drive that was formatted to NTFS in windows?  You can only see the unallocated space in Linux. So why is it there? Does it serve a purpose?
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I have a Virtual machine using centos 7 with 200GB disk.For some reason my layout is:  df -h Filesystem               Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1                100GB  95GB  5GB      Running fdisk -l:  Disk /dev/sda: 204.8 GB, 204803670016 bytes,400007168 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 label type: dos Disk identifier: 0x0006c283  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1            2048   199997439    99997696     Linux   I would like to increase my space on my partision /dev/sda1.
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Long story short, I have an external USB hard drive formatted using a MBR partition table, and I want to install Ubuntu in UEFI mode in a ~23.40 GB unallocated space before a ~442.33 GB NTFS partition that I need to keep:    To install Ubuntu in UEFI mode I need the partition table of the drive to be formatted as gpt.  I don't think there's an easy / direct way to convert a MBR partition table to a gpt partition table, so I'm also looking for the complicated / indirect way.  For example I think something can be done by noting down the NTFS partition start, writing the new partition table and adding the NTFS partition to the new partition table, but I've never done this and I have no idea where to start; furthermore I don't wish to try this for the first time in this case, since I'm not really confident with this stuff and I can't afford losing the NTFS partition I need to keep.
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i install ubuntu and followed a guide to put 20gb in '/' and the rest (150gb) in '/home'. Now i just found out that a lot of the things installed in ubuntu usually goes to '/' instead of '/home'. I have a lot more things to install.  So what is the point of '/home' ? How do I fix this ? Should I transfer 150gb from '/home' to / ?  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev            7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /dev tmpfs           1.6G  9.5M  1.6G   1% /run /dev/sda6        19G   16G  1.8G  91% / tmpfs           7.8G  676K  7.8G   1% /dev/shm tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock tmpfs           7.8G     0  7.8G   0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/sda2        96M   29M   68M  31% /boot/efi /dev/sda8       159G  1.1G  150G   1% /home tmpfs           1.6G   56K  1.6G   1% /run/user/1000   what is /boot ? Its not '/' or '/home'
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Yeah, so I have 2 hard drives, on with 2 partitions(backups and windows), and I have another that also has 2 partitions with only one used. I have Ubuntu on hard drive 2:partition one, but I have come to a point when the /home folder can't hold any more files, but the partition is only about 15% filled up. So I did some researching and figured out that you can put it on a separate partition, but most of the guides were vague on what I needed to do. Could someone give me step-by-step instructions on what I need to do, or even tell me a, easier or different way to fix this /home folder capacity problem?
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To my knowledge Ubuntu creates a system reserve on partitions that take up 5% of the partition capacity. On 8 TB drives system reserve takes up about 380 gigs. I double checked this in df and can calculate the missing gigs. I have four 8 TB partitions and am losing 1.5 TB of storage space. Is there a way to make ubuntu use a smaller percentage for the system reserve?
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I've Win8/Ubuntu Dual boot. I already have 4 partition so i cannot create a new partition and mount it elsewhere. So, this () question did not help.  Here's a screen shot of my Gparted (run on Ubuntu Live)   How can I extend /dev/sda6  so that  i can make use of unallocated space ?  (w/o failing my current grub)
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I need to resize root as there is not enough space left in the partition. At present I am not able to install new package nor update ubuntu. I tried sudo apt-get clean and emptying trash but it does not make significant space.  I have dual boot system (windows-7 and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS) with two Internal hard drive. Where Windows is installed in /dev/sda and Ubuntu is installed in  /dev/sdb. I tried to resize root using Gparted but it does not allow. Please let me know the steps of using Gparted for resizing root. I want to transfer space from "/home" to "/".   df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb5        14G   13G  271M  98% / none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev            3.8G  8.0K  3.8G   1% /dev tmpfs           779M  1.3M  777M   1% /run none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none            3.8G  160K  3.8G   1% /run/shm none            100M   56K  100M   1% /run/user /dev/sdb1       3.7G  555M  2.9G  16% /boot /dev/sdb7       896G   75G  776G   9% /home   --  sudo fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 500.1 GB, 500107862016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 60801 cylinders, total 976773168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x38696756 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          206848   976771071   488282112    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000a1848 Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sdb1   *        2048     7852031     3924992   83  Linux /dev/sdb2         7854078  1953523711   972834817    5  Extended Partition 2 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sdb5         7854080    37148671    14647296   83  Linux /dev/sdb6        37150720    45043711     3946496   82  Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sdb7        45045760  1953523711   954238976   83  Linux   Thank you
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I'm new to GParted. I have to resize a partition that contains root file system which is full. Previously I had Windows installed in my system. I use a 250GB hard drive and was divided into 3 drives namely C, D and E drive. After this I installed Ubuntu and used the existing NTFS file system, to install Ubuntu. Now, I need to resize the partition mounted on root file system as it is full. Below is the link to screenshot of GParted -    What should I do to increase the size the /dev/sda6 without any data loss in GParted
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I know how much space is required to install Ubuntu.  How much space does a Ubuntu installation take up on the disk?
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I have a filesystem that has lots of small files. Currently about 80% of inodes are used (I checked with df -i), however only 60% of disk space is used. How can I 'increase' the number of inodes? If it was just disk space, I know that I could just increase the size of the disk (this disk is on LVM). If I increase the size of the disk, will that make me have more inodes?  I'm willing to grow the filesystem this disk is on, if that'd help.
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In my computer I have several partitions. I have one partition with Fedora that had just below 40 GB of space, and which I wanted to make bigger. Therefore, using GParted, I moved 10 GB from another partition to the Fedora partition. Now, according to GParted, I should have just below 50 GB (see sda12):  However, from Fedora itself the available space looks different:  This was the same space that was available before I resized the partition. How do I make that space actually available to Fedora?
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I have installed Ubunut 12.04 using WUBI. The "Installation size" options I chosen was 18GB i.e the amount of space you want to "give up" for WUBI. That is the space wubi's Ubuntu install is able to use. Wubi creates a disk image (loopmounted device) on your host system in/on which Ubuntu is installed. Now, I am running out of memory in primary partition.   Could anyone help me out to extend/stretch the partition size?
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my dual boot PC with Windows 8.1. On Ubuntu I have seen a 524 MB drive popped up.  As I take a look at it, its not swap or anything. Its contents are as follows:   Can I delete the partition and extend the 104 GB partition? Or I should leave it as it is?
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I recently upgraded my disk from a 128GB SSD to 512GB SSD.  The / partition is encrypted with LUKS.  I'm looking for help extending the partition to use all the free space on the new disk.  I've already dd'd the old drive onto the new one:  [root@localhost ~]# fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 477 GiB, 512110190592 bytes, 1000215216 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 4096 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 4096 bytes / 4096 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00009f33  Device     Boot   Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type /dev/sda1  *       2048   1026047   1024000   500M 83 Linux /dev/sda2       1026048 250064895 249038848 118.8G 83 Linux   There's about 380GB of unused space after sda2.  More relevant info:  [root@localhost ~]# vgs   VG             #PV #LV #SN Attr   VSize   VFree   fedora_chocbar   1   3   0 wz--n- 118.75g 4.00m  [root@localhost ~]# lvs   LV   VG             Attr       LSize  Pool Origin Data%  Meta%  Move Log Cpy%Sync Convert   home fedora_chocbar -wi-a----- 85.55g                                                       root fedora_chocbar -wi-a----- 29.30g                                                       swap fedora_chocbar -wi-a-----  3.89g  [root@localhost ~]# pvs   PV                    VG             Fmt  Attr PSize   PFree   /dev/mapper/encrypted fedora_chocbar lvm2 a--  118.75g 4.00m   There seems to be a lot of info regarding how to do this, but very little explanation. I appreciate any help on this.
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Currently there is not enough space on by /boot partition/folder and the sofware update can not be performed.   Question: how should I correctly free-up some space in that directory?  Here is the listing:  root@mindaugas-ubuntu-14:/boot# ls -la total 156607 drwxr-xr-x  4 root root     3072 Kov 12 09:37 . drwxr-xr-x 24 root root     4096 Kov 23 23:36 .. -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1163858 Rgs  4  2014 abi-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164720 Grd 16 03:17 abi-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164967 Sau 13 22:12 abi-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root  1164852 Kov 10 22:43 abi-3.13.0-46-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165671 Rgs  4  2014 config-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Grd 16 03:17 config-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Sau 13 22:12 config-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root   165748 Kov 10 22:43 config-3.13.0-46-generic drwxr-xr-x  5 root root     1024 Kov 12 09:37 grub -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29225220 Rgs 25  2014 initrd.img-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29264463 Sau 24 20:22 initrd.img-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29267419 Vas 23 20:30 initrd.img-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-r--r--  1 root root 29268175 Kov 12 09:37 initrd.img-3.13.0-46-generic drwx------  2 root root    12288 Rgs 14  2014 lost+found -rw-r--r--  1 root root   176500 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+.bin -rw-r--r--  1 root root   178176 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+.elf -rw-r--r--  1 root root   178680 Kov 12  2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin -rw-------  1 root root  3386479 Rgs  4  2014 System.map-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3388834 Grd 16 03:17 System.map-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3389258 Sau 13 22:12 System.map-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-------  1 root root  3389458 Kov 10 22:43 System.map-3.13.0-46-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5806848 Rgs  4  2014 vmlinuz-3.13.0-36-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814496 Grd 16 03:17 vmlinuz-3.13.0-44-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814112 Sau 13 22:12 vmlinuz-3.13.0-45-generic -rw-------  1 root root  5814592 Kov 10 22:43 vmlinuz-3.13.0-46-generic   There was a mention of it here:      $ sudo apt-get remove linux-image-2.6.31-21-generic   but will it delete all the files?