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enter image description hereaI have searched here on this site and others on the web and have tried to expand sda6 after removing several other OS/partitions with GParted... no success. Please guide me to the instructions or help! I want to use the entire hard disk for this Ubuntu 15.04 installation currently on sda6. Tried to post a screen snapshot of GParted but notified I need "10 reputation" to do so... that is not helpful to solving problems for a newcomer to the site. end rant.

I am booted via Ubuntu live USB. I have deleted all previous partitions and am left with:

/dev/sda1 ext4 size 201 MiB used 140.05 MiB unused 60.95 MiB
unallocated size 174.53 GiB
/dev/sda2 extended size 123.37 GiB 
/dev/sda6 ext4 size 121.37 GiB used 115.02 unused 6.34 GiB flag = boot
/dev/sda5 linux-swap size 2.0 GiB

Why is sda6 mounted? I did "swapoff" as suggested... still can not resize partition.

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  • Do I understand it correctly that you want to add the 174GiB of unallocated space to sda6?
    – s3lph
    Aug 7, 2015 at 23:54
  • yes that is exactly what I want to do. I want to use as much of the hard drive space as possible for the current Ubuntu installation.
    – SteveC
    Aug 8, 2015 at 0:03
  • when I tried to expand sda6 to unallocated space it looked like it was reducing te size of sda6 so I cancelled it... already backed up all data
    – SteveC
    Aug 8, 2015 at 0:05
  • Can you increase the size of sda2?
    – s3lph
    Aug 8, 2015 at 0:14
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    possible duplicate of GParted wont resize extended partitions You're experiencing the same issue here.
    – s3lph
    Aug 8, 2015 at 0:59

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Problem solved! Thank you seppi! My machine hardware or the live USB OS was slow to respond to the changes suggested/made.
Swapoff and wait.... then unmount sda4. Thank you again seppi for your help and patience!

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