I have a dual boot with Ubuntu and Windows and I trying to make a Linux partition bigger, but I can't.
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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 had installed Ubuntu inside Windows XP but then I formatted XP and installed Windows 7.   EDIT1: I used Wubi for the same. I want to know which one of the two will solve my problem? creating a virtual disk or resizing root? Also is resizing root possible as the 4GB ext4 partition is already in a NTFS format Hard Drive partition.  At the time of installation I had allocated only 4GB of space to Ubuntu. I want to increase that size as I keep getting a low disk space notification.   I have surfed through a lot of similar questions but this is not a duplicate.  Because I want to know a little about the file systems. In order to solve my problem,do I have to increase the size of root.disk? Or will it be solved by creating a virtual disk?  Also I want to know the difference between creating a virtual disk and just increasing disk space of root.I'm new to Ubuntu so I don't know how the file systems function.  EDIT2:I have created a virtual disk of 10gb ,but I'm still getting the same notification.Is there anyway to install all further applications on the virtual disk I created?
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I have backups up everything, but I'm still uneasy about the process and would like confirmation. I'd rather do this one time correctly. I want to shrink /dev/sda6/ by 200GB and reallocate it to /dev/sda2. I boot a LiveCD and turn off LinuxSwap (locked otherwise). I've been reading that it is very hard to move &quot;left&quot; when partitioning and other AskUbuntu threads are confusing me. Do I need to resize /dev/sda6 by 200GB &quot;preceding&quot; (rather than &quot;following&quot;), and then resize /dev/sda4 by 200GB? A little guidance would ease my nerves of messing everything up. Thank you ahead of time.
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I have a USB device and i'm trying to create it in a way that it has 2 partitions: one for a live linux disc and the other for document storage.  I created the partitions using gparted and and set a boot flag to the one I want to use as the live disc. Now, I have a usb like this:  Disk /dev/sdc: 14.6 GiB, 15623782400 bytes, 30515200 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 Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0xc3072e18  Device     Boot   Start      End  Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sdc1       8439808 30515199 22075392 10.5G 83 Linux /dev/sdc2  *      51200  8439807  8388608    4G  b W95 FAT32   I then used dd to flash an Ubuntu iso to /dev/sdc2  sudo dd if=/dev/shm/ubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdc2 bs=4M   When the disc is flashed onto the usb drive, I try to boot from my laptop and it shows "Operating system not found". When i try to use qemu/kvm, it shows a kernel panic like this:    How would I be able to do this properly?
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I want to convert one partition of my windows which is NTFS (or can be FAT32) to a linux file system partitioning? I'm looking for some tools or ways to do it for me!
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I resized the root partition with GParted, from 20 GB to 40 GB, but the filesystem still reports a size of 20 GB.  How can I use all 40 GB?    Update  The resized partition was an LVM Physical Volume (/dev/sda2), and the boot partition is ext4 (/dev/sda1).
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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 have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do this for me? I tried booting up in gparted to do this but I cannot tell which partition is which since I cannot find the size (it displays everything in blocks).
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I have 3 partitions on my computer.  +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ |  Device   |  Type |   Size   |  Used   |                                                 Comments                                                 | +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | /dev/sda1 | ntfs  | 104MB    | 35MB    | This is Windows loader                                                                                   | | /dev/sda2 | ntfs  | 144598MB | 64536MB | Here I want to install UBUNTU                                                                            | | /dev/sda3 | ntfs  | 105353MB | 20227MB | This my backup partition. I don't want to delete anything from here, I have all my necessary information | +-----------+-------+----------+---------+----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+   The problem is when I select "Device for boot loader installation" /dev/sda2.  I get:  No root file system is defined. Please correct this from the partitioning menu.   How can I resolve this?
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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 have two partitions, one of them has a file system and the other is unallocated.  How to merge two partitions?
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I'm a windows xp user and I'm new to Linux I decided to install Xubuntu on my machine since it's quite old (512 MB ram and 2.66 GHZ P4 processor) My machine doesn't support booting from USB so the only choise for me was installing xubuntu from minimal CD  The problem is that I'm new to Linux ,the only OS I've ever used was windows So in the setup process every thing went fine until the partionning process  I want to install xubuntu next to my XP and I got only tow partitions on my 160 GB HD  So anyone who know how to partition my HD in a way that keeps my xp and my other files ? Thanx in advance :-)
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I would like to be able to adjust the partitions shown below. Specifically, I want to add an additional 10GB from the unallocated space to /dev/sda5 (Ubuntu install). I will then format the remaining unallocated space as NTFS so it can be shared data between Windows and Ubuntu.   I am unable to increase the size of /dev/sda5 - I am only able to shrink it.  Any assistance would be greately appreciated.
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I installed Ubuntu with Windows. Before installing, I shrunk the space for Ubuntu. Now I have 3.7GB free in my Ubuntu home.That's not enough for me.  So I shrunk my NTFS partition, it's now unalocated. Then I selected ext4 (Ubuntu home) to resize.   But it is 4GB and GParted not allowed to resize more than 4GB. But my 1GB is unallocated.
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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 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 had Windows 8 installed on my system, which I screwed up, and now I run Ubuntu 12.04. While installing, Ubuntu used all the 461 GB of HDD space (one partition).   Now I want to make a new partition of maybe 100 GB or so, in order to install Windows 7 alongside Ubuntu (with a dual-boot). But I can't even get a partition done. I can't change the partition in GParted either - the option is disabled.