I'm trying to install Windows 10 after Ubuntu () and I have to resize my 1TB HDD where Ubuntu is installed but I can't resize it at all.     The problem is that it's blocked. I can't move the slider nor writing in the new size or free space following fields. I want to make a 500 GB partition.
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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 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 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 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'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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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 want to shrink my second (LVM) partition, in order to create a new partition in the newly freed space. I am using the Live CD to do so, because I know I can't resize/move this partition while it is in use. When I opened GParted in the Live CD, I realized that I could not resize the partition, because when I right-click it, the option "resize/move" is disabled.  I tried to unmount it, to "lazy" unmount it (umount -l /dev/sda2) but it didn't work.  A screenshot from GParted:
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I am dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu, both installed on separate partitions. I don't need Ubuntu anymore. How can I remove the Ubuntu partition(s) and add the reclaimed space to my Windows 7 partition for saving files in Windows?
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I installed Ubuntu 14.04 onto my Acer Aspire E15. The PC has a 500 Gigabyte HDD.   During the installation it divided the HDD into separate partitions. However every time I turn on the PC it goes directly into Windows 8.1. It doesn't allow you the opportunity to select which OS you want to use.   Question 1: How do I set the PC so it will allow me to select the OS?  Question 2: And if #1 isn't possible. How to I remove Ubuntu from the PC and recover the partition for Windows
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I have Ubuntu 10.04 on my computer, with Windows 7 next to it. Instead of upgrading to 10.10, I feel like doing a clean install. However, I don't want to erase my Windows, even though I barely ever use it. My question is: how would I remove Ubuntu 10.04 from my drive and install Ubuntu 10.10 in place, without losing any space or anything, or losing Windows 7?
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Im attempting to resize a filesystem on a mulipathed volume that I've grown, rescanned all the disks, and resized the multipath map.  # resize2fs /dev/mapper/my_vol  resize2fs 1.43-WIP (20-Jun-2013) Filesystem at /dev/mapper/my_vol is mounted on /var/lib/myvol; on-line resizing required old_desc_blocks = 6, new_desc_blocks = 12 resize2fs: Permission denied to resize filesystem    # strace -f resize2fs /dev/mapper/my_vol (finishes with) ....snip....  write(1, "Filesystem at /dev/mapper/my_vol"..., 101Filesystem at /dev/mapper/my_vol is mounted on /var/lib/myvol; on-line resizing required ) = 101 write(1, "old_desc_blocks = 6, new_desc_bl"..., 42old_desc_blocks = 6, new_desc_blocks = 12 ) = 42 access("/sys/fs/ext4/features/meta_bg_resize", R_OK) = 0 open("/var/lib/my_vol", O_RDONLY) = 4 ioctl(4, 0x40086610, 0x7fffb729c2e8)    = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted) write(2, "resize2fs", 9resize2fs)                = 9 write(2, ": ", 2: )                       = 2 write(2, "Permission denied to resize file"..., 38Permission denied to resize filesystem) = 38 ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0 ioctl(2, SNDCTL_TMR_TIMEBASE or TCGETS, {B38400 opost isig icanon echo ...}) = 0  write(2, "\n", 1 )                       = 1 exit_group(1)                           = ?   I would like to keep this server up as it hosts many virtual machines, and I've not experienced permission denied when running a resizefs as root before, what could be denying root a simple resize? Any help greatly appreciated.   The server has selinux disabled, and the multipath -ll shows the volume in a read-write state. (wp=rw)  myvol (3600c0ff00013d24d8c20725301000000) dm-12 HP,P2000 G3 iSCSI size=186G features='1 queue_if_no_path' hwhandler='0' wp=rw   I have noticed that ls -ld on the mount point shows  drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 4096 Jan 27 12:49 myvol   and not  drwxr-xr-x. 5 root root 4096 Jan 27 12:49 myvol  #ls -Zd myvol drwxr-xr-x root root ?                                myvol   Related?
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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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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 want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my pre-installed windows 7 pc and I want a dual boot. I have no empty partition on my hard disk drive. I don't want to re-install windows 7 and don't want to install ubuntu on c drive. I want to install on a different partition but I want to resize it. How should I do it? Please answer in steps. Also suggest the amount of space I should allocte to ubuntu 13.10.
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These are my current disk partitions. /yedek is for some personal backup files. As you can see there is only Ubuntu on my PC. I will install Windows, too. Because of this I want to shrink /dev/sda3 . It currently 546GB and I want to split it: 300GB for / and 246GB for Windows (NTFS) is OK for me.  I'm using GParted for the first time. How can I shrink /?  I don't want to lose any datas from Ubuntu.
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How can I expand/resize my extended partition (sda3) with unallocated free space to the left of it? I want this to be able to expand my / partition (sda5).
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I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 LTS on a Dell XPS 13 (9350). The laptop came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I am installing from a pendrive but I think the issue would be the same if I used e.g. a USB DVD drive.   Dude, where's my hard drive?  I am blocked because the installation program cannot find 8.6Gb of free space on my hard drive despite the fact that there are hundreds of Gb free according to Windows. Digging a bit into the problem, it seems that Ubuntu cannot see my hard disk at all.    This is the output of GParted:    I am not sure what that drive mounted at /cdrom is, but it seems the only device that exists in the system that is not a RAM disk or a loop device:   Content of /proc/partitions:   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /proc/partitions   major minor  #blocks  name     1        0      65536 ram0     1        1      65536 ram1     1        2      65536 ram2     1        3      65536 ram3     1        4      65536 ram4     1        5      65536 ram5     1        6      65536 ram6     1        7      65536 ram7     1        8      65536 ram8     1        9      65536 ram9     1       10      65536 ram10     1       11      65536 ram11     1       12      65536 ram12     1       13      65536 ram13     1       14      65536 ram14     1       15      65536 ram15     7        0     130048 loop0     7        1    1104188 loop1     8        0    1970239 sda     8        1    1953439 sda1   Summary of fdisk -l:   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l |grep Disk Disk /dev/ram0: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram1: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram2: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram3: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram4: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram5: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram6: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram7: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram8: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram9: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram10: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram11: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram12: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram13: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram14: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/ram15: 64 MiB, 67108864 bytes, 131072 sectors Disk /dev/loop0: 127 MiB, 133169152 bytes, 260096 sectors Disk /dev/loop1: 1.1 GiB, 1130688512 bytes, 2208376 sectors Disk /dev/sda: 1.9 GiB, 2017525248 bytes, 3940479 sectors Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000   Result of fdisk of the only non-loop non-RAM device (not sure this is relevant):   ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -l |grep -A 50 sda Disk /dev/sda: 1.9 GiB, 2017525248 bytes, 3940479 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x00000000  Device     Boot Start     End Sectors  Size Id Type /dev/sda1  *      129 3907007 3906879  1.9G  c W95 FAT32 (LBA)   I am blocked at this point. Any help will be much appreciated.   Additional information (following comments):   Running dmesg |grep -i sata shows (among others) eight lines that suggest some kind of error:   ata1: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata2: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata3: SATA link down (SStatus FFFFFFFF SControl FFFFFFFF) ata4: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata5: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata6: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata7: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0) ata8: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 0)  I have "Restarted" windows instead of only "Shutdown" it to avoid problems with "fast startup", following some recommendations I have read of other users having problems installing Linux on Windows 10 laptops.ago   Regarding SATA, the BIOS says: "SATA Operation: RAID ON". The other two options available are "Disabled" and "AHCI".    I have followed the instructions of these two pages from Dell: , .