For the life of me I cannot figure out how to move this partition so I can add it onto my ubuntu partition. I need to move it down two partitions so it is next to sda8, then I can add those partitions together. I cannot edit it in anyway unless I make it into a partition, But even when I do that and try to "resize/move" It only allows me to re size it. I have no clue, I have been trying to do this for over an hour. I have tried with gparted, gparted booted from a USB, the windows drive editor, and even another drive editor I downloaded onto my windows drive. Please help, thanks :)
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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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My current situation is:   One hard disk Dual boot Ubuntu 11.04 and Windows 7. Partitions:  100MB Windows System thingy 144GB Main Windows 160GB Ubuntu 4GB Swap 12GB System Restore stuff    Now I want to install an 80GB SSD and move Ubuntu to it. AFAIK I need to:   Shrink the 160GB Ubuntu partition to 80GB Copy it over to the SSD Change fstab to mount the SSD as /   How do I do the second? And what do I need to do about Grub?
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Story:  Yesterday I wanted to make my Ubuntu partition bigger so I ran Windows (Dual boot) and decreased size of my D drive size. It wanted me to reboot computer, when it was starting up it done everything and rebooted once again. Then I saw grub rescue with "no filesystem" or something like that. I ran Ubuntu live CD to fix that and it is now working.  Problem:  Problem is when I want to add unallocated part of HDD to my Ubuntu partition I can't, because GParted thinks whole disk is unallocated! I tried fixing filesystem by: fsck /dev/sda5 -f -r, but I think that's not it (or I'm doing it wrong way). I have also tried chkdsk from Windows Installation CD, but it didn't fix anything. Also, both of systems are working.  Is it just GParted problem, or maybe HDD is bad for real? If so, how to fix it?  fdisk -l can see partitions:  root@ubuntu:/home/ubuntu# 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 / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0xa118d672     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1   *        2048      206847      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2          206848   286719999   143256576    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3       286720000   811972349   262626175    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       915726335   976771071    30522368+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA) /dev/sda5       915726336   968652799    26463232   83  Linux /dev/sda6       968652800   976771071     4059136   82  Linux swap / Solaris   Images:
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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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Is there a good tool/program that allows me to clone a system drive to another, smaller hard drive?  I've bought a new 64GB SSD drive and would like to move my current Windows 7 Professional 64-bit installation to that new drive. My current drive is a 200GB SATA drive with one partition only. Of course there's enough free space to shrink my current partition to less than 64GB.
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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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Check out the screenshot below, I want to extend my C partition (where Windows is installed) into the unallocated free space shown. This space was cleared up by shrinking the D partition. I can extend the D partition if I want to, but not the C.  Why not?
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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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I have installed Ubuntu 14.04 on 1TB HDD and have installed lots of packages and softwares. Now i've bought an 128GB SSD, I have few questions on how to partition SSD and HDD and how to move my current installation to SSD.  I'm thinking to have / and /home on SSD, and store other files on HDD, so how can i partition SSD+HDD to have:   / and /home on SSD have /home/music, /home/videos, /home/downloads, /home/pictures on HDD I have no idea about swap partition (should it be on SSD or HDD, actually its empty most of the time now), my laptop has 16 GBs of RAM   I'm planning to have fresh install of 14.04 on SSD (and i think i have to), so what is the best way to move currently installed packages to new installation ? i'm planning to use Aptik for that, is there a better solution ?  Is preload any good and gives performance boost when using SSD (i have 16 GBs of RAM)
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So I've got 2 hard drives, a 128GB SSD, on which Windows 7 is installed, and a standard 1TB hard drive.  Now I want to install Ubuntu. The SSD has only got about 4GB of space left, and I don't really want to delete anything to make space for Ubuntu so I want to install it on the 1TB hard drive. I know that in order to do this I will have to change the boot order each time I want to switch OSes, but I don't really mind since I won't be using Ubuntu as much as Windows anyway. I've got a lot of data on the 1TB hard drive, about 850GB, but there should be enough for Ubuntu.  My question though, is if I can just make a new partition on this drive and install Ubuntu to it, without erasing any other data. If I can, can I, like I specified, also just change the OS I want to use by simply changing the boot order? Sorry if this has been asked before, but most of the answers I could find were about installing it to an empty second hard drive, whereas I would like to keep the data on mine.  Thanks in advance!
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I just installed Ubuntu, a full install removing the prior OS. I was forced to remove  from my  because of the max four partitions already being there. I didn't lose anything, all backed up. However, now I am looking to create another partition and install Windows&nbsp;7 on it.   Do I also need some sort of boot loader that lets me choose which to boot?
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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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This is what my GRUB 2 menu looks like so far:  I want to do a few things here:  I want to rename &quot;Windows Boot Manager (on /dev/sda1)&quot; to just &quot;Windows 8.1&quot;. I'd like to rename &quot;Ubuntu&quot; to &quot;Lubuntu 14.04.1&quot;. I'd also like to switch the order of the options to this:  Windows 8.1 Lubuntu 14.04.1 Advanced options for Lubuntu    (Windows will be the default OS) If it helps in any way, I'll explain the steps I took prior to this, since I am very new to Linux and don't know what information is required.  I bought a laptop on Amazon (ASUS X551MAV-EB01-B) pre-installed with Windows 8.1 64-bit I downloaded the proper Lubuntu .iso file for my system (Lubuntu 14.04.1 amd64) and put it on my flash drive (via UNetBootin) I went to Disk Management, and shrunk the C:/ drive down 32Gb so that 32Gb will be free for Lubuntu I used my flash drive (32Gb Sandisk Cruzer) as a LiveUSB for Lubuntu 14.04.1 I went through the install process. It didn't recognize Windows 8.1 so I had to do the &quot;Something Else&quot; option. I highlighted the free space, and pressed the + button I created a 10,000mb ext4 partition and mount point is / (is now dev/sda7) I created a 4,000mb swap area partition (is now dev/sda8) I created an ext4 partition using the rest of the free space and the mount point is /home (is now dev/sda9) I selected dev/sda7 to install Lubuntu and selected dev/sda7 for the bootloader installation It installed just fine, booted up just fine, and I'm happy to know the GRUB menu works.
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I'm currently dual-booting to either Ubuntu 10.10 or Windows XP. However, I rarely use windows and would like to remove it.  I've use the Ubuntu live CD to access GParted. I've also deleted the windows partitions (I think), which were labeled both ntfs and fat32.  I'm just not sure how to extend the Ubuntu partition to cover the unallocated space. Furthermore, how do I deal with the 'key' designations, which state that a partition is busy.  Help!
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I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu, both installed on separate partitions. I don't need Ubuntu anymore. How can I remove the Ubuntu partition(s) and add the reclaimed space to my Windows 7 partition for saving files in Windows?
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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 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.