I have a 500GB drive and 20.0GB drive and i want to do a little experiment and see if i can make them be 1  : HOW I  DO THAT ON Gparted ?
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everyone. I need to create LV for xen guest. There is only one disk of 70G. While installing, I use the default process and not the LVM. Do I need to reinstall Ubuntu to create the LV? Is there some better method? Thanks a lot.  root@vswitch-BlackfordESB2:/home/vswitch# vgdisplay   No volume groups found root@vswitch-BlackfordESB2:/home/vswitch# vgcreate vm /dev/sda1   No physical volume label read from /dev/sda1   Can't open /dev/sda1 exclusively.  Mounted filesystem?   Unable to add physical volume '/dev/sda1' to volume group 'vm'. root@vswitch-BlackfordESB2:/home/vswitch# pvdisplay  root@vswitch-BlackfordESB2:/home/vswitch# df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1              60G  4.2G   53G   8% / udev                  3.6G  4.0K  3.6G   1% /dev tmpfs                 1.5G  1.1M  1.5G   1% /run none                  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none                  3.6G     0  3.6G   0% /run/shm
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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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In my computer I have several partitions. I have one partition with Fedora that had just below 40 GB of space, and which I wanted to make bigger. Therefore, using GParted, I moved 10 GB from another partition to the Fedora partition. Now, according to GParted, I should have just below 50 GB (see sda12):  However, from Fedora itself the available space looks different:  This was the same space that was available before I resized the partition. How do I make that space actually available to Fedora?
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Can anyone recommend a cheap/free utility that can do this without very much effort?  My preference is that it would be really easy.    Boot into Windows Pick drive to move Pick target drive It copies everything over, and reboots to the correct partition.
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I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my largest drive is only 4 GB to small).   Is there any way to do this (preferably with free or open source programs)? I am running Windows XP.
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I have installed Ubuntu on a 32GB USB and set it up like I want, Installing some programs and removing others. I have added custom wallpaper and splash screen. How can I duplicate my modified OS and GMail it using Google Drive, (10GB limit), to friends and family for Christmas? It should be able to run on any modern x86-64 computer that meets Ubuntu hardware specifications. It should be uninstallable using Rufus, Etcher, mkusb and Gnome-Disks. I would also like to be able to install it from a USB stick. I have heard of and tried Remastersys, ISORespin, Ubuntu Customization Kit and Systemback, but now these all seem to be abandoned now. Sometimes I work in VirtualBox and would like to be able to distribute the OS's I create there also.
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I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data.   I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an hour. My hard disk heats up so I have continuous ventilation to keep it cool.   Is this lengthy time taken by GParted normal? If not, then how do I safely disconnect it? I don't mind losing the data, but the hard disk is really important. Any suggestions? Also, will running the hard disk for such long hours be harmful?
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Yeah, so I have 2 hard drives, on with 2 partitions(backups and windows), and I have another that also has 2 partitions with only one used. I have Ubuntu on hard drive 2:partition one, but I have come to a point when the /home folder can't hold any more files, but the partition is only about 15% filled up. So I did some researching and figured out that you can put it on a separate partition, but most of the guides were vague on what I needed to do. Could someone give me step-by-step instructions on what I need to do, or even tell me a, easier or different way to fix this /home folder capacity problem?
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I have a 320GB hard drive currently partitioned as below:     A long time ago, a computer expert formatted my hard drive like this because I wanted to install Ubuntu. I'm now ready to do this, but I'll never need so much free space (103.09GB). I want to enlarge the D:\ volume because it already has lots of data on it.  I know that when I open diskmgmt.msc, I could possibly enlarge the D:\ volume using some free space from the unformatted 103.09GB volume, because the program offers me the option to enlarge. However I'm afraid that I might lose data doing this.  Is it possible to enlarge the partition with this Windows 7 tool or am I better using GParted via "Try Ubuntu" on my Live CD? Would either of them cause data loss in this scenario?
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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 an SSD with 64 GB and a 6 GB/s 1 Terabyte hard drive. I want to use the SSD only as a boot device and maybe for swap storage. On the 1 Terabyte hard drive, I want to have the main file system. As in Windows, I liked to have at least 2-3 Partitions example for music games programs and so on. Which partition layout do you recommend to me?
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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 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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I have  a 220g partition with ubuntu. And a empty partition 100g. How can I expand the partition with ubuntu? I boot from liveCD, start gparted, sgrink 1 partition, and could't expand the 2 partition.
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I have 2 HDD drives in my computer. At the moment second drive is mounted as /media/storage.  How can I move my user data from /home to /media/storage/home?  Can I just move the data over there and then simply symlink it back?
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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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New Ubuntu user here... I have Ubuntu on my 250GB SSD and I have another 500GB on my laptop that Ubuntu can't find. I'm not sure where or how to start finding it.