I recently installed Ubuntu with dual-boot setup. I was dumb enough to just give Ubuntu 8GB with diskplace, and now it's critical.   I need more and I have a good space in my SSD. How to I extend the diskplace?
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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 first noticed an issue when trying to install Linux Mint 14 as a third OS alongside Ubuntu 12.10 and Windows 7 - I was unable to create another partition to install Mint to.  Poking around, I realised that I had reached the limit of primary partitions: (from left to right of the table) 1) a ~100 MB primary partition that I meant to use for storing Grub files but never got down to, 2) a 25 GB extended partition, with the entire partition containing an ext4 Ubuntu partition, 3) a ~513 GB partition containing Windows 7, 4) some ~50 GB of unallocated space, and finally 5) a 4 GB swap partition.   I decided to wipe off the first ~100 MB partition, which I didn't need anyway. This brought me to a dilemma, however: as Ubuntu, during initial installation, had created an extended partition for itself, which meant that I could not create any more. Having an extended partition for Ubuntu is virtually useless as there is only enough space to contain Ubuntu itself, and the benefits of extended are worthless here. And if I go ahead and install Mint now, I would face the same issue of too many primary partitions in the future should I want to create any more.  What I'd really like to do is this: convert the current extended partition into a normal primary partition, and create a new extended partition in the unallocated space for all future partitions. Is this possible, and if so how? Thanks in advance!
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Going to install Ubuntu 10.10 on new intel x25M 80GB SSD. It will be fresh install. I have been googling for past few days and getting overwhelming articles/blogs/Q&amp;As. One particularly very useful being:     But with so many suggestions and differences of opinions (on different links) this simple OS install process seems to be daunting task to me and I really want to stick with Ubuntu (although have used for very short period of time).  Can someone help me by answering few questions (yes, they are repeated because I couldn't comprehend the answers elsewhere)   Which file system (ext2/3/4 or something else)? (consider SSD life) Can it be changed after installation? Should I partition the disk? (as we do in traditional HDD) for now, no plan of dual booting. Only Ubuntu will live on scarce space of 80GB SSD. I have 2 GB RAM, should i still allocate swap space (if I don't allocate swap space, can I still hibernate the machine)? will swap space impact SSD life? Should I consider putting additional 1GB RAM to avoid swap space? What is partition aligning? Is it needed to be done before installing the Ubuntu OS or can be done later?   Intended usage - heavy browsing, programming, regular video/music and some other non-CPU/RAM-intensive programs. Will keep big files in an external hard drive.  laptop config - 3yr old Vaio, Core2 Duo, 2GB RAM  More references:        (resizing/creating does not seem a simple process after look this)
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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 have a 320 GB harddrive with three partitions / , /home and swap. What I want to do is change the size of swap which now is 8 GB to 5 GB and append that 3 GB to my /home partition. I have searched through the web for this but don't seem to find a proper way to increase my home partition. Can anyone help ? By the way, I know how to decrease size of swap I just need the proper way to append that unallocated 3 GB of space to my /home partition without loosing the data. Thank You    gparted   from live-usb i can't increase my /home size
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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?
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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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This question intends to demystify  the desktop installer for Ubuntu, on how the required disk space before installation is being determined.  From this dated post :     [When installing] Ubuntu 12.04 alongside with Windows 7 using the Ubuntu installer, [the user] wasn't able to give Ubuntu less than 32 GB [...] and as the guide states, "Ubuntu needs about 4.5 GB to install, so add a few extra GB to allow for your files".   The required disk space was previously about 5 GB (Ubuntu 12.04), 8 GB (Ubuntu 16.04), and has since increased to 25 GB (Ubuntu 18.04), as per . In practice, the absolute minimum for required disk space may differ by installation media and machine.  The design spec via  describes the installer mockup and nothing else about how the required disk space is determined (top half screenshot).    I have clarified that Ubuntu 16.04 will require at least 8 GB disk space only on a physical machine, but the minimum changes to 8.3 GB when installing to a virtual machine (bottom half screenshot).  So how does Ubiquity determine the required disk space?
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I have a USB drive that I accidentally partitioned when trying to put Ubuntu on it. It's a 16 GB Kingston flash drive but it is now split to two partitions, 7.30 GB each.  How do I combine the two partitions into one? I have tried Disk Management in Windows but no luck.
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I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) partition to fill up the created unallocated space.  A screenshot of my current disk. (With the livecd there's no 'key' icon after sda6)    My first thought was just right click on sda6 → move/resize → done. Unfortunately I cannot resize or move the partition. However I can resize the NTFS partition.  I guess it is because the extended sda4 partition is locked. I couldn't see an unlock possibility though…  So how do I resize the ext4 partition anyway, probably by unlocking the extended partition, but how?
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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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I support a laptop running Ubuntu in another state (so I don't have physical access to it).  It is an EeePC with two internal drives: a 4GB flash drive with the root fs, and a larger (~12GB) drive with the /home partition on it (and plenty of free space).  The user tried to upgrade to 11.10, and the upgrade failed because the root partition doesn't have enough free space to perform the upgrade.  I remember running into a similar problem on a laptop once before, which just had one physical drive but a poorly-thought-out partition scheme; I think I just symlinked a directory from a too-small rootfs partition to a larger partition.  In this case, I think the best solution is to bind-mount whatever directory Ubuntu wants to use to store its downloaded files to the larger drive.   What directory (or directories) is the important one that needs to be 'moved' to the larger drive? If I can get away with just bind-mounting one directory, do I just need to do it once, at the beginning of the installation, or do I need to add the bind-mount to the fstab (i.e. because the files are still needed after reboot, so the bind-mount needs to be persistent)? Is there an easier or better way to accomplish the upgrade?  (Neither a fresh install nor a repartition is an option right now)
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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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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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I have an external Hard disk with 500 GB capacity.  I have data filling almost 300 GB.  I want to install Ubuntu into it.  I have downloaded the iso and have written it to a USB drive as a bootable device.  My laptop runs on Windows 7.  What is the way to install Ubuntu in my external HDD.  I have yet to do any partitioning.  I would not like to lose the data.
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Thus is a picture of both of my hard-drives:    My C Drive and my D drive. I want to put Ubuntu onto my D Drive. Now my question here is if i do install onto my D Drive then how should I do it in order to retain use of the drive. I intend to partition about 60 gigs from it. Now after doing that I should still have about 830 gigs left. I want to still be able to use that in Windows. So how and will I be able to retain use of the drive after Installing? I have installed once before and I believe i did it wrong because not only could Windows not recognize my D drive but I also lost all the data on it.   My computer is a Lenovo Y700 It is a UEFI (I believe i got that right).
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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.