I have an 8gb USB stick with Lubuntu 18.04 installed on it. It was created with mkusb and has persistent storage filling up maximum possible area. At some point I needed more persistent storage capacity, so I'm trying to clone the entire installation to a larger stick, using .  While the "dus" part of that answer completes nicely, resulting in a bootable 1-to-1 copy on the new stick, the "gparted" part later on gives me some trouble.  The  contains a small partition /dev/sdb1 situated at the end, flagged "msftdata". In order to resize the casper-rw one, I guess I need to move this one to the end of the new stick also, so that casper has the room to grow. The problem is, gparted seems to have some issues with this little partition and refuses to move it on the new stick. Deleting it seems to be the only way gparted is able to touch it.  My question is, what is this small partition all about, what does it do, why is it there, what can I break by deleting it?  In fact I did some experimentation with deleting it on the new stick, then growing casper to a suitable size. The clone still boots, all seems normal, but I'm wondering if I'm facing any risks later on after removing this little guy.  Here's  from gparted concerning the partition in question.
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I have an acer V7 which came with a 1TB HDD, 24GB SSD and Windows 8 installed. I have installed Ubuntu onto the SSD and formatted the main partitions of the HDD. However, I also notice 3 other partitions on the HDD marked msftres, msftdata. Is it safe to format these also so that I have one contiguous drive partition or will I be wiping something important like boot or bios data?
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I want to cut my 8 GB USB key into several partitions to use  for a Windows XP (maybe d before).   I also want to put the  remix pack into it such that it has the second bootable OS. I want to tweak and modify it a little because if I can I want to switch Ubuntu 9.04 to the  version.  How to do it easily?  IMP: in short I want to make a dual-boot USB key with Windows XP SP3 and Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS.
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I have a brand new 32GB flash drive that was bought from Hong Kong but manufactured in China.  When I plug it in, it's detected, and when I examine the properties of the drive the size is reported to be 31.2 GB.  Windows forces me to format it but I have not manged to actually do that.  I then I browsed the internet and a forum told me to change the letter to L. After I did that I searched many programs that can help me format it, but when I checked it back, it is 4MB now.  Any idea what's happening with my drive?
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If I put a USB-drive in, it will automount. I can see it with lsblk  NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb      8:16   1   7,5G  0 disk  └─sdb1   8:17   1   7,5G  0 part /media/user/usb-drive   If I unmount it with umount  umount /media/user/sdb1   it will still be visible with lsblk, but not mounted any more:  NAME   MAJ:MIN RM   SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT sdb      8:16   1   7,5G  0 disk  └─sdb1   8:17   1   7,5G  0 part   but if I instead eject it by clicking the eject icon in Thunar (xfce file manager), it will disappear from the list in lsblk. Why is that so?
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I would like to clone a single partition off of my current HDD to a newer, larger SSHD. The partition that I would like to clone is running Linux Mint 17.1. Using a bootable Clonezilla USB, I have been able to clone the entire old disk to a new disk, but the Mint partition is preceded by a large, messy Windows 8.1 partition. The Windows 8.1 partition is failing on the HDD, however, so I only want to keep the Mint partition.  Could I do this with Clonezilla, GParted, dd, or some combination?
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Tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 from USB-stick alongside the existing Win7 OS 64bit, and now I'm not sure if install was completely successful: Disk Utility tool claims that the Extended partition (which contains Ubuntu partition and Swap) is "misaligned" and recommends repartition. What should I do, and if should I do this repartition, how to do it (especially if I would like not to lose the data on Win7 partition)?  Background info: A considerably new Thinkpad laptop (UEFI BIOS, if that matters). Before install there were already a "SYSTEM_DRV" partition, the main Windows partition and a Lenovo recovery partition (all NTFS). Now the table looks like this: SYSTEM_DRV (sda1), Windows (sda2), Extended (sda4) (which contains Linux (sda5; ext4) and Swap (sda6)) and Recovery (sda3). Disk Utility Tool gives a message as follows when I select Ext: "The partition is misaligned by 1024 bytes. This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested."  There were couple of problems during the install, which I describe below, in the case they happen to be relevant.  Installer claimed that it recognized existing OS'es fine, so I checked the corresponding option during the install. Next, when it asked me how to allocate the disk space, the first weird thing happened: the installer give me a graphical "slide" allocate disk space for pre-existing Win7 OS and new Ubuntu... but it did not inform me which partition would be for Ubuntu and which for Windows. ..well, I decided to go with the setting installer proposed. (not sure if this is relevant, but I guess I'd better mention it anyway - the previous partition tools have been more self-explanatory...)  After the install (which reported no errors), GRUB/Ubuntu refused to boot. Luckily this problem was quite straightforwardly resolved with live-Ubuntu-USB and Boot-Repair ("Recommended repair" worked just fine). After all this hassle I decided to check the partition table "just to be sure"- and the disk utility gives the warning message I described.  I checked my disk specs on Hitachi/HGST website, and yes, it's Advanced Format ("Advanced Format, 512-byte emulation").  Also, fdisk gives me the following:     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System  /dev/sda1   *        2048     3074047     1536000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda2         3074048   523241959   260083956    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda3       939907072   976771071    18432000    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT /dev/sda4       523243518   939907071   208331777    5  Extended Partition 4 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda5       523243520   932153343   204454912   83  Linux /dev/sda6       932155392   939907071     3875840   82  Linux swap / Solaris   Apparently sda4 (extended) partition is off by 2 bytes (sda4 starts on 523243518, sda5 523243520), but if I understood correctly, this should not be a problem, as the logical partition sda5 seems to be OK(?). In other words, there should be no need for repartitioning?
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So I've been having some trouble recently with Ubuntu and decided it was time to switch to windows. But I have no ntfs partitions on my hard disk and GParted will not let me resize my one large partition (/dev/sda1) so that I can allocate some ntfs space to install windows on.  Any help would be greatly appreciated, I've had this problem for quite some time now and it had just become one big headache.  Thanks in advance!
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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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These are my current disk partitions. /yedek is for some personal backup files. As you can see there is only Ubuntu on my PC. I will install Windows, too. Because of this I want to shrink /dev/sda3 . It currently 546GB and I want to split it: 300GB for / and 246GB for Windows (NTFS) is OK for me.  I'm using GParted for the first time. How can I shrink /?  I don't want to lose any datas from Ubuntu.
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I recently made my pen-drive bootable with Ubuntu 14.04. But I need to unboot my pen-drive now. I formatted my pen-drive once,But the size of the pen-drive still shows 2.25 MB. Whereas,this is an 8GB pen-drive. How can I get rid of this problem. I'm still using Windows 7.
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I am aware that similar questions have been answered before for different versions/releases of Ubuntu, but I cannot find an application to reformat a USB stick in Kubuntu 12.04.01. Right-clicking the drive in Dolphin doesn't give the format option. Is it possible on software that comes with the package, without resorting to the Terminal or GParted?
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Recently, I bought an USB flash drive which has a cool design.  The seller said it is 256GB however, I've already known that capacity would be fake. Anyway, I bought it cause of its cool design and want to use this USB flash drive anyway.  What should I do?  I've tried to find a proper tool(vid 1908 / pid 1320) but couldn't. Can I repair this through Low level format? Or partitioning this through Linux?
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I have created a USB stick with a persistent Ubuntu 16.04 (release version). I tried a couple of ways, using Startup Disk Creator and MultiSystem, but I get the same end result.  When I boot into the USB and do 'apt-get update', all is well.  When I try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' I get:     ** (appstreamcli:2761): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way. AppStream cache update failed.   The only reference to this error message I can find is  but would appear to be fixed, at least fixed by the time the release version of Ubuntu 16.04.  Aside: I want to test Unity8, which includes installing software.  I don't have a spare computer, so I thought a persistent USB would do the trick.  Any takers?
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I am currently dualbooted between Windows 8 and Linux Mint 18  Using GParted, I see this following:   The selection partition is unallocated for a size of 25 GB, I would like to merge this with my dev/sda6 (linux partition), so that I can make my linux partition about 50GB. I'm not really sure about the process though on how to do this? I try to resize dev/sda6, but I see that the maximum size and minimum size are the same. How do I merge the unaccolated space?
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I am a Linux user. I don't have Windows on my laptop. Also the hard drive size is less than 2 TB. Then why should I use GPT tables? Can't I go with old fasioned MBR?  I will be having two root partitions, two home partitions, and a swap space. So when a partition is not primary, but is extended, does that make any performance difference?
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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 have my /home on a BTRFS partition and I need to shrink it. Unfortunately, Gparted does not have the resize option for this FS. Can I resize it in any other way without losing my data?