Want to shrink my windows partition and then increase the size of my Ubuntu one. I could not find a clear answer already, so I'm asking this.
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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 want to partition my hard disk, but I don't have any other software running(like dual booted).  And I do not know how to do it. Can you send the instructions?
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I am running Ubuntu Server 14.04.4 under VirtualBox on a Windows server. When I first set up the machine I opted to put /boot on its own 230 MB partition. This turns out not to have been necessary for my situation and now I’d like to roll /boot into the much larger partition I use for /. How can I safely make this change?
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I have a hard disk, which was partitioned before (probably in Windows) like this:   Partition 0 - primary, 20Gb  Partition 1 - extended, 200Gb   I have unallocated space after Partition #1, so I wanted to increase the size of the Partition #0. At first I wanted to move the Partition #1 to the right, so I started Ubuntu from CD and called GParted. All the logical partitions inside the extended partition aren't mounted. I've assigned the Partition #0 as swap (temporarily) because it looks like the Ubuntu needs the swap even when started from CD.  The GParted can resize the extended partition (Partition #1) but it can't move it. The left arrow in the slider is not movable.  What might be a problem?  Also, the Partition #1 has a single flag on - it's "lba" flag. What's it for? Maybe it's the reason the GParted can't move it?
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I have CentOS 5.5 installed, I have no un-partitioned space and the only ext3 partition I have is huge with lots of free space.  Can I change that partition size in order to allocate another one? I want to create new partitions in order to install another distribution there (Ubuntu).  I tried to do it through the volume administration tool in CentOS, but when I edit the partition size and confirm, it says that it is mounted in / and it needs to be un-mounted before re-sizing, which of course fails.  Any suggestion?
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I was installing Windows 7 using the CD. I have 3 partitions already, and when creating a new partition using the DVD, it says "You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains maximum number of partitions." How can I create more partitions?
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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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I have Windows 7 on my HP laptop and I want to install Ubuntu.  I tried to shrink my boot and system partition, it does not allow me to shrink the partition more than 97 MB. Is it necessary to delete the recovery partition?   I want to know how to put this recovery on a CD or DVD to keep it and not to lose it.
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I am trying to create a new partition on my laptop (XPS 12 9Q33, 128GB SSD) by shrinking the C:\ partition. However, despite the fact that it indicates there is enough space, it displays an error message. I have successfully done this on my desktop, but for some reason it fails on my laptop.     There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation.   I am trying to shrink C:\ (which has ~25GB free) by 10GB.  I have:   ensured there are no files at the end of the sector (disabling pagefile, etc.). See  for how to do that (and you do need to do that). turned off my antivirus temporarily. disabled BitLocker encryption.   And it still fails. I've even tried Paragon's Partition Manager, which claims there is not enough space on the disk, which is not true.  I have even tried shrinking different sizes (down to 256MB), but to no avail (it still displays the same error).  Screenshots:      Any help would be appreciated.
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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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Is there any way to shrink an exFAT partition?   The windows disk manager has the "Shrink" option greyed out.
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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 created a partition for Ubuntu so I could dual-boot Windows Vista with it. However, Windows is no longer necessary and I want Ubuntu to take up the entire hard drive. I was wondering how to safely resize the Ubuntu (11.10) partition and take Windows out all together, without having to reinstall Ubuntu and lose all of the files.
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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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How can I increase the size of the root partition of a system at runtime?   I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is also ext4), how can I add that unallocated space to the space allocated to the root partition without having to shutdown the server?
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I started installing Ubuntu by watching a video tutorial about doing a disk partition installation, for that, inside Windows' 7 own disk partitioning tool. After a defrag I cut 100GB that I pretended to use on my Ubuntu installation for a little try out, now, while installing, I never really chose where I wanted Ubuntu to be installed, so I guess it just made a partition by itself of the minimum that the installation tells you it needs.  How can I now give the other 92 GB I had left apart only for that task?  Here's what my partitions look like now.     Here's a df:    And here's the GParted tool un ubuntu:
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I was installing ubuntu 12.04 on my system. There were 4 partitions on my system and I selected one of the four partition for the installation and chose the option of resizing the partition. Initially my partition was of size 100+GB and i created another partition out of it of size 15GB (EXT4). Now the moment I changed this partition structure my original partition got lost along with its data and I am left with 50GB partition and 50GB unallocated free space.   Now the data that I have lost is meant a lot to me and I want to recover that data. So is there any way I can recover it? And I haven't checked "format" option while resizing the partition.