I have changed the size of the vhd. I am running GParted from an iso through Oracle VirtualBox Manager. Gparted will not let me add the extra memory unallocated to the main partition. Can anyone please help?  Print Screen of GParted:    Note- size is 40Gb, allocated memory is 15GB and unallocated memory is 23GB.
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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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So i want to install Ubuntu and im booting from USB. Im new to Ubuntu.  When i click SOMETHING ELSE, it shows 4 partions: the first of 1mb, sda1, unknown free space, second of 100mb sda2 (that i know its system recovery from win7), third is 170gb (win7) sda3, and the last one is like 830gb, i dont know where this came from.... on windows i have them separated.  is this a bug or something? How to install without losing all my data and keeping Win7?  When i try without installing i get to see my 3 partions (170gb, 600gb, 230gb) but not when i try to install.  Edit  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/sda   outputs this:  GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.7   Partition table scan:   MBR: MBR only   BSD: not present   APM: not present   GPT: not present   *************************************************************** Found invalid GPT and valid MBR; converting MBR to GPT format in memory.  ***************************************************************  Disk /dev/sda: 1953525168 sectors, 931.5 GiB Logical sector size: 512 bytes Disk identifier (GUID): 2729AEE7-A594-4A07-91DF-96116B581067 Partition table holds up to 128 entries First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1953525134 Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries Total free space is 2044 sectors (1022.0 KiB)  Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name    1              63            2047   992.5 KiB   4200  Windows LDM data    2            2048          206847   100.0 MiB   4200  Windows LDM data    3          206848       245762047   117.1 GiB   4200  Windows LDM data    4       245762048      1953523119   814.3 GiB   4200  Windows LDM data   And,  ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l   outputs this:  Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders, total 1953525168 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 Disk identifier: 0x13344b63     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System /dev/sda1              63        2047         992+  42  SFS Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary. /dev/sda2   *        2048      206847      102400   42  SFS /dev/sda3          206848   245762047   122777600   42  SFS /dev/sda4       245762048  1953523119   853880536   42  SFS
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I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.  Can I use gparted to do this?  If so how?
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I had resized my root partition from 30gb to 70gb using gparted. But Ubuntu still shows that I have the same old disk size while gparted shows that I acually have 70gb and that the other 40gb is somehow used. How can I fix this?  Output of 'df -h':  Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda5        30G   16G   13G  55% / none            4.0K     0  4.0K   0% /sys/fs/cgroup udev            1.9G  8.0K  1.9G   1% /dev tmpfs           391M  884K  390M   1% /run none            5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none            2.0G  284K  2.0G   1% /run/shm none            100M   48K  100M   1% /run/user /dev/sda6       341G  115G  227G  34% /media/Data /dev/sdb1       932G  459G  474G  50% /media/sidharth/passport   Output of mount:  /dev/sda5 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/cgroup type tmpfs (rw) none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw) none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw) none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620) tmpfs on /run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,size=10%,mode=0755) none on /run/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=5242880) none on /run/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev) none on /run/user type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=104857600,mode=0755) /dev/sda6 on /media/Data type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,default_permissions,blksize=4096) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/sidharth/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=sidharth) /dev/sdb1 on /media/sidharth/passport type fuseblk (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,blksize=4096)
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Every time update manager prompts an update I get a message saying that there is not enough space available, however  the partition with Ubuntu installed  has over 10 GB of free space available.  I'm lost as to what needs to be done.  df -h returns:  Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use%   Mounted on /dev/loop0            5.6G  5.1G  237M  96% / udev                  2.0G  4.0K  2.0G   1% /dev tmpfs                 786M  792K  786M   1% /run none                  5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock none                  2.0G  332K  2.0G   1% /run/shm /dev/sda6              20G  6.7G   13G  34% /host /dev/sda5             175G  120G   56G  69% /media/DATA   It would be great if someone could help me out on how to solve this problem. I'm a newbie to Ubuntu.
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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 trying to grow my C: drive to use the unallocated space on Disk 0. Is it safe to throw away the Recovery Partition (i.e. make it unallocated)? And if so, is GParted an ok tool to do that with? Or do I need to move that, and if so, is the way to do that to reduce the size of the unallocated partition so there is empty space at the end, then move it there?
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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 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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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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As the output of df -h shows here, something is eating up 5GB of free space. So, it's not available to use.   I'm also noticing sometimes that the hard disk gets filled up to 100% sometimes. So, I had to restart the machine or delete some unncessary files. Only noticed these in /home partition. Don't know whether these two are related, but appreciate if anyone can put some insight into this.  $ df -h Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda8             100G   92G  2.7G  98% /home
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I have a shiny new 5TB WD Black and was hoping to use it as the OS System disc and for a fair number of audio production programs, Workstations, samplers, synthesizers and such. Moving from a 2TB. The new drive loses nearly 3 TB as "unallocated space" if run direct from the Win7 program disc. I reset the drive, initialized it in GPT, got back all 5 TB but can't put the OS there. Do any newer versions allow this or do I go backwards to a 4 year old 2 TB that's in the habit of crashing to bluescreen at least daily and use the new one for all programs but windows? (I'm backing the old drive up using Acronis in total as I type, (tired of rebooting ). Win 10 upgrades are free right now...will this change allow me to increase the storage on my system while using a new drive for the system? Old format has 2TB OS + programs, 3TB full of samples, 2 x 3TB as RAID backup system, too many usb drives to list when I need to empty stuff out......Thank in advance!
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I'm trying to extend  the D: partition using unallocated 30.91 GB space at its left side.   states it can't be done using Disk Management's UI and it suggests using 3rd-party tools.  However, how can we do this natively (e.g. diskpart) without installing/downloading additional software?
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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.
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I just bought a 3TB WD green drive, but when I try to partition in in gparted I get an error like:  ====================== libparted : 2.3 ====================== partition length of 5860530176 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295   And when I try with Ubuntu "Disk Utility" I get a similar error like:  Error creating partition: helper exited with exit code 1: In part_add_partition: device_file=/dev/sdc, start=0, size=3000592982016, type=0x83 Entering MS-DOS parser (offset=0, size=3000592982016) MSDOS_MAGIC found looking at part 0 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 1 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 2 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry looking at part 3 (offset 0, size 0, type 0x00) new part entry Exiting MS-DOS parser MSDOS partition table detected containing partition table scheme = 0 got it got disk new partition Error: partition length of 5860528002 sectors exceeds the msdos-partition-table-imposed maximum of 4294967295 ped_disk_add_partition() failed
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I just upgraded my Windows 7 machine from 12GB to 24GB RAM - both for running more VMs and for future proofing.  My C drive is an SSD with 129GB formatted size.   I was surprised to find out that the SSD only has 68GB free (most of my files are on D: to G:). Researching I found 24GB of my precious C: SSD are taken up by the virtual memory pagefile in the root.  Do I need such large amounts of virtual memory when I have 24GB or RAM? I bought this size of memory so I'd not have to go to disk.