I have this unallocated space before my root partition and GParted doesn't let me add it to my Ubuntu partitions. I am running Ubuntu from a USB drive. While it lets me add it my Windows partitions. What can I do to increase my partition size (selected in the picture)?
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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 created an ext4 partition to back-up my files to, and partitioned it for 102GB in Gparted using a live USB. After I booted into Ubuntu, I opened Disk Utility, and it said that the partition was actually 108GB. Confused, I opened the mounted partition in Nautilus, and it said the partition was only 98GB.  Which is correct? Did I partition it wrong?
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The main question is how to make space in root (/). After this I want to resize the root partition, this topic can be found on:  or elsewhere.  I'm a little bit confused. No command seems to work for there is no space. I tried some random easy-way solutions but the problem persists. Here is the description of what I did:  1) It started giving me advices of “Little space on root, try uninstall software”  2) I removed some, and the Software Update continued working.  3) Eventually the root filled and now and for over two weeks the update software isn't working. I forced to upgrade with sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade and not working. It gives me this message (auxiliar repositories):    4) At some point I tried to do some random reading on forums and enter command like this: sudo apt-get clean  and gave me a file in: /var/cache/apt/archives/lock.txt and problems with dependencies, repositories and dpkg.  5) When I run sudo apt-get -f install this is the current exit:  $$$$$$$$:~$ sudo apt-get -f install [sudo] password for $$$$:  Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho Corrigiendo dependencias... Listo Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes extras:   linux-headers-3.13.0-61 linux-headers-3.13.0-61-generic Se instalarán los siguientes paquetes NUEVOS:   linux-headers-3.13.0-61 linux-headers-3.13.0-61-generic 0 actualizados, 2 se instalarán, 0 para eliminar y 60 no actualizados. 2 no instalados del todo o eliminados. Se necesita descargar 0 B/9.575 kB de archivos. Se utilizarán 76,5 MB de espacio de disco adicional después de esta operación.    ¿Desea continuar? [S/n] s dpkg: aviso: falta el fichero de lista de ficheros del paquete "gnome-power-manager", se supondrá que el paquete no tiene ningún fichero actualmente instalado dpkg: aviso: falta el fichero de lista de ficheros del paquete "qtdeclarative5-qtfeedback-plugin:i386", se supondrá que el paquete no tiene ningún fichero actualmente instalado dpkg: aviso: falta el fichero de lista de ficheros del paquete "libio-string-perl", se supondrá que el paquete no tiene ningún fichero actualmente instalado (…) And continues with 2369 problems like this (all packages not found?)  6) Over this point I realized I had the root full and needed to liberate space and maybe extend the size of partition, for which I read I will need some 200 MB of free space. I don't remember how but I entered two commands that told me how much used/total space I had, noting it was full.  7) And now when I try to not mess with commands I don't really know (late), trying to uninstall software gives me this exit:  $$$$$$$$$:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove openshot [sudo] password for $$$$: Leyendo lista de paquetes... Hecho Creando árbol de dependencias Leyendo la información de estado... Hecho Tal vez quiera ejecutar «apt-get -f install» para corregirlo: Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:  linux-headers-generic : Depende: linux-headers-3.13.0-61-generic pero no va a instalarse E: Dependencias incumplidas. Intente «apt-get -f install» sin paquetes (o especifique una solución).  Any suggestions? I have installed programs not found on Software Center and took me some time and effort, I would like not to format or reinstall Ubuntu if possible. Thanks in advance.
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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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I have just got a new laptop, It is running Windows 7 Home Premium.  I have shrunk the windows partition to give me some empty space and now I want to install ubuntu.  From Windows my partitions look like:   So now in the ubuntu live cd If I hit install and go manual the partitioner looks like   So I thought I could just select the empty space and be away laughing, but when I hit it I get
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I am not able to expand my Ubuntu partition even though I have unalloacted space adjacent to it. Can someone help me please?
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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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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 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.
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Long story short, I have an external USB hard drive formatted using a MBR partition table, and I want to install Ubuntu in UEFI mode in a ~23.40 GB unallocated space before a ~442.33 GB NTFS partition that I need to keep:    To install Ubuntu in UEFI mode I need the partition table of the drive to be formatted as gpt.  I don't think there's an easy / direct way to convert a MBR partition table to a gpt partition table, so I'm also looking for the complicated / indirect way.  For example I think something can be done by noting down the NTFS partition start, writing the new partition table and adding the NTFS partition to the new partition table, but I've never done this and I have no idea where to start; furthermore I don't wish to try this for the first time in this case, since I'm not really confident with this stuff and I can't afford losing the NTFS partition I need to keep.
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I had Ubuntu (150 gb) and zorin os (150 gb). In a hard drive of 320 gb, then using the Disks utilty of Zorin OS 9 which I'm running, tried to delete the Ubuntu one, because I will stay only with Zorin.  Then I noticed that is not so simple. And now that "free space 152 gb" shows as unallocated. My attempts for doing something about that from Zorin failed, I guess because can't do much with the HDD as I'm using an OS running on it right? So even gparted couldn't help.  How do I make a gparted USB bootable? Is that the way to go to boot and resize partition to use that unallocated space?  Can someone point me in the right direction, in a step by step guide?   I'm 100% stuck. Made the USB bootable with unetbootin, downloaded the gparted iso, but when I reboot and enter the BIOS, when pick the usb I get "The system found unauthorized changes on firmware, operating system or uefi drivers", and that's all, no joy,  no gparted resizing my partions or merging the unallocated space...  Tried booting with linux mint from bootable usb, and running gparted, but in that case I can't to anything with unallocated space either. I can only resize    The dev/sda1 can be shrinked only... I'd like to have a 294 gb hd instead... the unallocated simply doesn't show any options or commands (all grayed out)  If I enter any number on dev/sda1 in "free space preceding" (or following), that is substracted from "new size"....  After doing a `mount´ in terminal I see this:  /dev/sda1 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) none on /sys/fs/pstore type pstore (rw) binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) systemd on /sys/fs/cgroup/systemd type cgroup (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,none,name=systemd) gvfsd-fuse on /run/user/1000/gvfs type fuse.gvfsd-fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,user=fernando) /dev/sdb1 on /media/fernando/MULTIBOOT type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,gid=1000,shortname=mixed,dmask=0077,utf8=1,showexec,flush,uhelper=udisks2)   I guess what I need is to delete the sda2 partition, how do I do that?
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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 had installed Ubuntu to my Dell Inspiron laptop with 3 partitions.   After I installed Windows I was unable to create new partitions, since I already reached the maximum number of partitions.  So I deleted the Ubuntu partitions and I installed Windows on two partitions. So I have got 4 partitions with Windows.  Then I tried to install the Ubuntu that previously deleted(on unallocated space). But the problem is that unallocated partitions are grayed out and can't be used.  Now what can I do?
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I’m trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside with Windows 7. My HDD supports only 4 partitions. Three of the partitions are taken up by windows. The fourth one is labelled as free space.   Now, how do I make root, swap and home partitions? Should I format my free space as primary with EXT4 first (if so, what should be the mount point?) and then create logical partitions for root/Home/swap? How do I go about this?  Edit: I tried to use the automatic installation option for dual boot. However I got the error ubi partman exit code 141. Probably because it tried to create two separate partitions for root and swap.   $ sudo parted -l Model: ATA ST1000DM003-1CH1 (scsi) Disk /dev/sda: 1000GB Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B Partition Table: msdos Disk Flags:   Number  Start   End    Size   Type     File system  Flags  1      1049kB  106MB  105MB  primary  ntfs         boot  2      106MB   277GB  277GB  primary  ntfs  3      277GB   903GB  627GB  primary  ntfs
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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 am trying to extend the C: with the unallocated space on the on the left.  I tried using a tool like EaseUS disk tool but it wasn't able to move C: to the left of the unallocated space.  Does anyone know how to get around this?
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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?