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609 questions linked to/from How to resize partitions?
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Unmounting the partition currently in use [duplicate]
OK, here's my scenario: I'm dual-booting Ubuntu 17.10 and Windows 10, and I want to shrink my windows 10 partition, and allocate the free space to my Ubuntu partition. I have shrunk my Windows ...
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How to re-partition to add a new partition after installing with one partition?
I just installed everything in one partition. How can I create an additional NTFS partition on this disk? I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
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Update Ubuntu 14
I want update my Ubuntu 14 to Ubuntu 16.
The problem is in my root directory. It consist of 7.3GB and I have only 300MB free space.
Can I update it using my home(where is my desctop) directory with ...
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Can I shift memory from ROOT to HOME partition - Ubuntu Linux 16.04 (dual boot with windows 10) [duplicate]
I have researched on my question first, but mostly I found that people want to transfer disk space from HOME to ROOT, while my case is the opposite.
My HOME partition is pretty full right now, while ...
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Showing Low space available when installing software - how can I use a partition mounted in /media to alleviate the situation?
I dual boot Ubuntu with Windows 7.
I am installing some software and it is saying low space available, while one disk is completely empty.
How can I use the /media/abhi partition?
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I can't resize my partition using gparted [duplicate]
I noticed that there are a lot of questions similar to mine on here, but I couldn't find the one that solves my issue. I have posted the image below:
I want to increase /dev/sdb12, but it won't let ...
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Extend root partition size [duplicate]
I have this in GParted. I want to extend my / filesystem (by eventually reducing the /home partition). I've seen this post, but the answers doesn't fit my need.
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An unhandlable error occured [duplicate]
I can't achieve updates, I get the following message (see image).
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 1,9G 0 1,9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 384M ...
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gparted - extending into linux swap
My desktop has Windows and Ubuntu in dual boot. Overall, I have a 500GB SDD. It turns out I have managed to limit my Ubuntu installation to a tiny 24 GB portion of it. I have only realised this when ...
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How to add space to home directory from Windows partition [duplicate]
I have little space in my home directory and plenty of space in my Windows partition that I don't use very much. I'm trying to move this space to my home directory.
It currently looks like that:
df -...
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Ubuntu 16.04 Increase partition size? [duplicate]
I already saw lots of answers here on askubuntu. But nothing seems to be working. All the answers seem confusing a lot.
I need clear cut idea if it is possible now to increase the partition size I ...
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How to create unallocated space in Ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
I've already installed ubuntu 16.04 and I want to manage my partitions.
I opened GParted and I wanted to have "unallocated space" to install another OS on it.
I selected one partition and chose Resize/...
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Is 30 GB enough space for working with Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 14.04 LTS alongside windows 7. I have 4 partitions on windows 7. I had a 73 GB partition which I could have used in it's entirety for installing ubuntu. Unfortunately, when I chose ...
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Resize partition for Ubuntu/Windows dual-boot [duplicate]
I'm dual-booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 14.04. While installing, I gave Ubuntu 50GB of my disk space but now I'm finding that it is small for me. So is there any way I can decrease my Windows C: drive ...
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Deleting and Formatting partition [duplicate]
So, I just deleted the XP partition on my hard-drive, and now have 30 Gb of extra space. But that space isnt being used by my Ubuntu file-system, and I'm getting warnings that there is only about 200 ...
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