Here is how my GParted interface looks like:     I want to add the unallocated space to my Ubuntu partition. However, when I try to resize/move I am not allowed to do so:
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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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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'm trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS on an HPG60 Laptop. I'm having a difficulty to install this coz I cant see the unallocated space I prepared in Windows.  As you can see on the attached screenshot:    I've prepared an unallocated space 96.72GB using Disk Management.  But when I boot up ubuntu and check Gparted,  I'm seeing this instead    An unallocated space of 1MB?!  Never encountered this before. I've installed ubuntu on a lenovo laptop that I use on office but I never like this before. Anybody have any idea why this is happening?
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I have backups up everything, but I'm still uneasy about the process and would like confirmation. I'd rather do this one time correctly. I want to shrink /dev/sda6/ by 200GB and reallocate it to /dev/sda2. I boot a LiveCD and turn off LinuxSwap (locked otherwise). I've been reading that it is very hard to move &quot;left&quot; when partitioning and other AskUbuntu threads are confusing me. Do I need to resize /dev/sda6 by 200GB &quot;preceding&quot; (rather than &quot;following&quot;), and then resize /dev/sda4 by 200GB? A little guidance would ease my nerves of messing everything up. Thank you ahead of time.
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I only have access to the server via a terminal and I can't use graphical tools such as GParted! I want to create a new partition from a part of the root (about 768mb) for swap.  # df -h Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vda         20G  1.3G   18G   7% / udev             10M     0   10M   0% /dev tmpfs           199M  4.9M  194M   3% /run tmpfs           100M   12K  100M   1% /run/user tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
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I have some free disk space on the left of my ubuntu (sda5)  What is best solution to extend sda5 ?  I can    copy sda3 or sda5 with dd to bigger disk. delete sda3,5,swap create sda3,5,swap dd original partition.   Not sure how to do it properly.  May be there is a simpler solution.
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How can I resize partitions from the command line? I've heard of , but I don't want to use a GUI program.
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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 want to extend my volume. However the unallocated space lies ahead of the volume. Is it possible to extend this volume without converting it to a dynamic volume?     I tried to use diskpart with the extend command but it doesn't work. Makes sense because the instructions says that the unallocated space has to be behind the volume.
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My dual-boot machine has partitions as follows:   sda1 50 GB NTFS sda2 15 GB unallocated sda3 20 GB ext3 sda4 20 GB ext4   I would like to allocate the unused space on sda2 to my Ubuntu partition on sda4, hopefully leaving the other two partitions untouched, leaving this configuration:    sda1 50 GB NTFS sda3 20 GB ext3 sda4 35 GB ext4   Is this possible? If so, how can it be done, preferably using GParted?
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I'm wondering if I could merge two unallocated spaces as shown in the picture below:    I would like to combine the two unallocated spaces into a single space for further partitioning.
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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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On my Windows 10 drive I have the following partitions    How can I extend the C partition so that it uses the (Extended) "Free space" partition?  The extend option is greyed out when right clicking the C partition    Deleting the free partition gives the following error     There is not enough space available on the disk(s) to complete this operation
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I have few partition like this:    And I want to take the unallocated partition and resize it to /dev/sda12. But when I try to do that:    I can't increase the size.  I have do it in Live Mode, and I have tried to the others partition, but still can't do it.  How do I solve this problem?
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I've installed Ubuntu 13.10 and formatted my whole HDD ,and i chose to encrypt the disk and it automatically chose the LVM option (and put it as a logical partition) now after Ubuntu installed i tried to repartition the disk thru Live CD put GPartition gave me it's an encrypted partition and it can't be resized , i want to put the system's files and the home folder on partition and my private files on another one  Any help please ?
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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?