GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
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Is it possible to customize the GParted toolbar so that the icons include text?
I installed GParted 0.12.1 in ubuntu. There is no text description under the toolbar icons. Is there a way to display text under the icons in the toolbar as can be seen on the various tutorial web ...
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Unable to extend ubuntu partiton
I'm trying to expand my Ubuntu partition, I booted up my LiveCD, opened GParted and freed some space. But when I'm trying to expand the partition, it doesn't show any free space. It does this only for ...
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where should I install windows?
here is a picture of "GParted".
Where should I install windows (which partition?)?
It's SDA1? I'm not sure because there are 20gb in use and I don't know why. It's possible that's the older ...
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Want to take several partitions and create one big one in GParted
Basically, I have this mess of partitions and unallocated space on my hard drive, I'd like to take every one except for /dev/sda1 (Windows 7) and create one big partition I can re-install Ubuntu on. ...
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Windows/Ubuntu dual boot error
I am new to Ubuntu, so I don't know much about it. I had installed Windows 8 on Legacy boot mode a while back as I had heard of problems with UEFI.
Now, when I try installing Ubuntu 13.04, it doesn't ...
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How do I upgrade Ubuntu on a partition using an iso image?
I've searched through some answers here, and while one was marked as a duplicate, it specifically dealt with an apt upgrade, so I don't think it applies to my question.
Currently I have 12.10 on my ...
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Does Ubuntu have gparted included?
As the title suggests, I need a live distro that has gparted included to work on some hard drive partitions.
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Screwed up partitions
I'm using an iMac
Using ubuntu, I made a bootable gparted usb (via unetbootin) to partition my hard drive. I reduced the size of my ubuntu partition and added two hfs+ primary partitions.
Now, even ...
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How to increase size of partition to take up unallocated space
I have a Ubuntu installation(sda3) with unallocated space that I want to use to use to increase the space of sda5 on the following picture:
The only problem is I cant resize it, gparted says im ...
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resize non-adjacent partitions?
I have a dual boot with three main partitions, one each for Ubuntu, Windows, and my files. I want to make the one with Windows ("OS") a bit larger, which would have to be at the expense of the one ...
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Low graphics mode- problem created by gparted
I am a relatively new Ubuntu user , I have an Acer laptop and I recently upgraded to 12.04 Ubuntu from 10.04 . I decided to make a partition for installing Windows 7 and I used Gparted Live CD.
It ...
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How to migrate Ubuntu/Windows 7 dualboot from HDD to HDD+SSD without reinstall?
I have a working dual-boot setup (Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7) on my laptop.
I got a 320GB HDD with partitions for /, /home, swap, winsys and a big windata partition. There's more than 250GB space occupied ...
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Updated PPA for Gparted
I am looking for a PPA that has an updated version of GPARTED. The one in the official repositories is very old (Version 0.12.1). Since then, there has been 10 new versions. The last one was the 0.16 ...
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Ubuntu Partition issue [closed]
Hi to all....Recently i installed ubuntu in my 2 systems: in one system I installed dual OS windows 7 and ubuntu 12.10 and another one system I installed ubuntu 12.10 only. My problem is Partition ...
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Repartition HDD to give Ubuntu more space
My Laptop came installed with Windows 7 and 320 GB of hard drive space. A few weeks ago I decided to try Ubuntu for a change, and created a 30GB partition for it.
Now, I want to give more space for ...
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What to do when GParted tells me: ERROR: NTFS is inconsistent?
I bought a Seagate Expansion 1TB Drive few month's ago. It was working smooth until 3 to 4 days ago, when this problem struck me.
I plugged it to my laptop in Windows 7 (I have Dual Boot, Ubuntu ...
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Shrink extended partition containing lvm
I have been bashing my head against the wall, regretting ever having opted into using LVM.
I need to shrink the 75GB /dev/sda2/ to make room for a new OS installation. To do this, I need to shrink ...
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Toshiba Satellite ubuntu wants to use entire disk
Trying to install Ubuntu on a new Toshiba Satellite Pro C850. When trying to install 12.04.2 but it wants to over write the entire disk . . . ditching Windows 8 completely. Is the only way to dual ...
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Ominous “8.5 GB Volume” on MomentusXT under 12.10
I'm looking for people who also have their Ubunutu/Linux running on a MomentusXT ST750LX003. A partitiion/volume is shown to me that I can't mount, nor really place where it comes from. It is ...
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Why does my USB hdd returns SG_IO: bad/missing sense data?
I am able to boot and run commands from external USB hdd.
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 1018 MB in 2.00 seconds = 508.97 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 80 MB in 3.03 seconds = 26.37 ...
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How to unlock partition in Gparted?
Im new in using Ubuntu and I cant seem to make any partitions for a new dual boot OS and the swap file or for any other matter i would want to use the partition because the drive is locked.
I have ...
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Ext4 Partition won't automount
(ubuntu 12.10 on HP DV7 i5 with 8GB memory)
Yesterday I decided to delete my 522GB Win7 (NTFS) partition, and create my Ext4, since my exposure to my Win8 on another laptop had made me a 100% Ubuntu ...
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Recommended dual boot partitioning for Asus N56VM s4089V Windows 7 64bit
Being brand new to this, although I've done alot of research, I would like confirmation that what I want to do is achievable with the current disk partition I have on my laptop.
Current set up via ...
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Installing Ubuntu from GParted
I have a BSOD related to a registry error that I can't fix. My overall hdd is healthy, but I don't have restore discs. I'm tired of messing with Windows - I've been reading up on Ubuntu and want to ...
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How can I speed up a partition resize using gparted?
Shrinking and expanding partition using gparted in old versions of ubuntu was very fast. Moving a partition was the only time-consuming task and the time depend on size of partition.
In new versions ...
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Need to expand /boot partition but not sure if I can
So I've been having some trouble installing updates lately because my boot partition has run out of space. I did some research to try and find the best way to expand the partition, but after looking ...
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Messed up SuperBlock/Journal SDCARD
I had recently partitioned my SDCARD to work with my phone. Added an EXT4 and FAT32 partitions. After a power failure the data got corrupted. I can still see it but it's not the same as before. I've ...
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Testdisk or gpart for recovering lost partitions? [closed]
Well, my problem is that I was trying to make a Windows XP installer for a USB Flash Drive using WinToFlash. But when it was in the process of formatting the usb, a BSOD occurred and my PC can't boot ...
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Can't resize main partition in Xubuntu
I did a clean install of Xubuntu that takes up the entire HDD.
Now I want to install BackTrack 5 on another partition.
I have tried Gparted both in Xubuntu and running Gparted live booting from a ...
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How to merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition?
How can I merge an unallocated partition with an extended partition ?
I'm having trouble moving this unallocated space to the Linux portion.
Here is my partition space:
Thanks.
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Remove lvm to install Ubuntu
I am trying to install Ubuntu. However I have an lvm on the drive I want to install Ubuntu on.
Gparted cannot remove the lvm which is /dev/sda6.
How can I remove the lvm to instal lvm over it?
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Just added a terabyte external hard drive (HD Mybook), but can't format it
I just added an external drive, a WD Mybook, but I can only open mount/unmount the drive. I was trying to use gparted to format it to windows. But it is taking several hours just to launch. All I ...
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ubuntu 12.10 boots into busybox, gparted unsuccessful
a few days ago my dual booted win7/ubuntu 12.10 machine booted into busybox. I googled around and determined the problem was due either to a partion problem, or a bad HD.
I found this answer that ...
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How do I Install Lubuntu 12.04 on a USB drive (the full installation)?
I want to install Lubuntu on my 32GB flash drive, but I don't know how.
I know a little bit about partitioning. When I go into GParted, my USB drive comes up as /dev/sdb. I already wiped it ...
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How to get rid of a zero-size invisible partition left after deleting Windows boot partition
Computers sold with pre-installed Windows 7 have a small "System Reserved" boot partition at the beginning of the disk which is not really necessary as Windows can boot alone or alongside Ubuntu ...
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GParted doesn't work in 12.04 Live cd
Here is the output from fdisk runing from 12.04 Live:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 ...
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Resize partitions | gparted | swapoff fail
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 alongside winxp on my laptop.
I'm trying to resize partitions (shrink winxp - enlarge ubuntu) running Gparted from LiveUSB. I read that I have to swapoff the linux-swap ...
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What are the consequences laptop running out power while GParted is running?
I was fixing my partition with GParted and it seemed to work well.
But, my laptop suddenly ran out of power and I didn't realize it, then it turned off while GParted was still running which was at ...
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Unable to Extend Ubuntu Partition Size
I'm trying to increase the size of my Ubuntu partition.
My partitions, overall, are sort of a mess. I don't know what the System Reserved /sda1 partition is, but I figure that's something to do with ...
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How to make main partition larger?
I'm running Linux through VirtualBox on Windows 7. When I created the virtual hard drive I only used the default size which is 8 GB. I was able to resize the virtual hard drive to 40 GB but in Linux ...
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“Installation Type” options
I am trying to install ubuntu onto my external drive via liveUSB.I created three parts called root,swap and home by using GParted.Now it time to install Ubuntu .I came to "Installation Type" window.I ...
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Is it important which comes first ,root or swap partition on my external drive?
I am trying to creat root , swap and home partition in order to install ubuntu onto my external hard drive.I use the program called Gparted.
But some people say first section must be root ,other say ...
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How to use Gparted on empty external drive
I would like to install Ubuntu onto my external hard drive. It is now empty (I guess). I ran my laptop from LiveUSB and I ran GParted to create root, swap and home section on my disk but the problem ...
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How to resize Ubuntu partition with unallocated space w/GParted & LiveCD
I currently have one hard drive with 3 partitions and 2 partitions of unallocated space. I am dual booting Windows 7 (1 partition) and another partition for Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm using Gparted and ...
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How to add a space from outside an extended partition to a logical partition contained in the extended partition?
First, my partitioning looks like so:
I do not like how it looks, and am not sure how I came up with that extended partition sda3[**] which I do not need, but it did not bother me initially, ...
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Gparted found problems when “checking” both primary partitions. How to fix?
I am using Gparted (from Ubuntu Live CD) to enlarge my Win Vista and shrink my Ubuntu 9.04 partitions.
Reports of "check" process on each partition are here:
Vista partition: ...
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How to extend Ubuntu partation size?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64BIT under my laptop, Asus K53E-B. Its hard disk drive volume 640GB.
I have 3 operation systems: Windows 7, Windows 8 (I just wanted try it), and Ubuntu 12.10.
I don't know ...
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Cannot remount a partition /
I recently installed linux alongside Windows 7, and before I knew the consequences, I unmounted the free space partition of my 320 GB hard drive, in the hopes of resizing the free space to make more ...
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Problem with resized partition
I have Ubuntu 12.10. I resized my sda5 from about 71GB to 43GB using gparted, I didn't get any errors. After restarting my computer, sda5 is gone both from Ubuntu and Windows (it was D: partition) and ...
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How to copy /sda3 to /sda1? UUID's can't be similar
/dev/sda is a 400 gig drive. It's partitions WERE: /sda1 - Windows boot partition (100 meg); /sda2 Windows "C:\" (68 gig); /sda3 is Linux boot partition; /sda5 is /home partition; /sda6 is linux-swap.
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