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GParted (GNOME Partition Editor) is a free partition editor for graphically managing disk partitions. It is included in some flavors of Ubuntu by default and is available in repositories.

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How do I format or partition a read-only USB drive?

Whenever I try formatting my Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB, I get this error message on Gparted. GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid Libparted 2.3 Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 14.42 GiB) on ...
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Ubuntu installer thinks my drive is empty, does not see windows partitions

I am trying to install Ubuntu 10.10 64bit. I just installed Windows 7 64bit moments ago. My drive is currently partitioned like so: 100MB Boot partition (automatically made by Windows 7 installer) ...
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Unable to resize partition through Gparted

I tried to resize it but it the slide bar wont even move. It's not mounted and I cant boot into windows because Lenovo screen pops up then goes black then switches to Ubuntu. I need more memory for my ...
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resize an encrypted disk?

so I've been using Ubuntu gnome for about 6 months+ now , and I wanted to install windows alongside as dual boot, but first I need to partition my disk so I can install windows on a separate partition,...
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USB stick shows up as two drives!

I was given a free 1GB USB at an event a few months ago - however, when I plug it in to my Ubuntu laptop, the USB shows up as two drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). I have checked it isn't just ...
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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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Installing ubuntu 14.04 or higher on PCIe G3x4 SSD with Windows pre-installed

I just recently bought this laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed in it on the SSD. I want to install Ubuntu 14.04 on this SSD (does not matter if I have to remove Windows for that) and use 1 TB HDD to ...
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how to merge boot partition with other partition separated by a grub2 partition

I have a machine where due to its history the grub partition sits between two large ext4 partitions, all seen in the picture below. I would like to merge the two partitions which currently sandwich ...
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Dell Precision 5510 Boot Partition Deleted?

While wanting to format my SD-card of 4gigs I accidentally removed a 4gig partition on my main drive in GParted. The system obviously wouldn't boot anymore. Not even showing Grub. I tried the ...
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GParted not opening

I am a newbie in Ubuntu. I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1, dual booted with Windows 8. I have some unallocated space on my hard disk which I want to use in Ubuntu. I heard Gparted is the best tool for ...
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boot-repair NVMe drive after gparted copy

I'm trying to migrate to my new NVMe Samsung 950 pro. chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p3 update-grub grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map. Process: Copied/...
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How can I rollback my GParted version?

I'm using ubuntu 14.04 with GParted 0.18. However, it seems to be inferior to previous iterations of it because it crashes every single time I try to resize a FAT32 partition or when I create a new ...
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Ubuntu/Gparted won't show all my hard drive capacity

My Asus Laptop's main, internal hard drive has a total 621.4 GB of space, however, Gparted is only showing a total of 332.06 GB of total data space among my partitions. Its pretty much telling me ...
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Disk '/dev/sdb' doesn't contain a valid partition table

I have installed Ubuntu on the USB stick and afterwards tried to clean up the disc to install another version of Ubuntu. I was not able to do it (even when tried to delete files by using sudo -rm), ...
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No disk tool lists my old 4 TB spinning HDD. I can't get in contact with it

I've tried to connect it via an esata cable and via USB. It's not listed with fdisk -l. How can i mount it? dmesg | tail -n 100 Doesn't list anything about my large disk. I have just installed ...
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Cannot create partition table on sd card

I cannot create a partition table ( nor msdos, nor GPT ) on my new 64 GB PNY micro sd-card. I tried: - using GParted ( in Kubuntu 20.04 and in Mint 20.3 ) - fdisk in the terminal ( Kubuntu ) - ...
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Ubuntu boot stuck and GParted live not launching

I've just run out of space on my root directory, so I wanted to shrink the 12GB swap partition to get more space using Gparted Live USB. This wasn't my first time using this tool and I have already ...
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HDD gives "failed to probe the device" (udisks-error-quark,0)

I run ubuntu on an SSD and was planning to use my HDD for storage purposes. I was running an ATA enhanced secure erase on the HDD when my PC crashed with an error that said NMI watchdog had detected ...
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Unable to open Gparted in Ubuntu 19.04 though GUI and through Terminal

Unable to open GParted through GUI and Terminal, in terminal i ran gparted and it display's below error. asool@finding:~$ sudo gparted Unit tmp.mount does not exist, proceeding anyway. /usr/sbin/...
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gparted on 19.04 does not show gui

I installed gparted from the Ubuntu repository. When trying to use it, I was asked to authenticate, but nothing displayed after that. I am using the NVIDIA version 418 driver as recommended by the ...
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fail create ext4 filesystem on micro sd card

I have a micro SD card that is plugged into an SD adapter. Using gparted, I create an ext4 partition and formatted to ext3. When the process is complete, I get a warning icon assoc with that partition ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Partition my harddrive with GParted after installing the OS

I have the following setup: Ubuntu 18.04 Internal Harddisk with 500 GB External Harddisk with 4 TB (not important for my problem) The internal harddisk shows the following properties with the ...
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Combine Beginning Unallocated Space with Ending Ubuntu Partition

I couldn't find an example anywhere of what I'm trying to accomplish. Below is what my hard drive looks like right now. I want to either: Combine the unallocated space at the beginning of the drive ...
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I opened gparted from the terminal and recieved this warning - Libparted-warning

**Libparted-warning** Error fsyning/closing/dev/sdd:1/O-**fel on fjärrmaskin** Swedish for **error/problem on external machine**.
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Unable to resize ext4 partition

I want to extend the size of ext4 but minimum and maximum size are same , what could be done ?
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Failing to resize partition in LV mode

I have Ubuntu 16.04 installed on my SSD taking its full size and having LVM enabled. I want to install a second operating system on the same SSD and I am failing to shrink down the partitions that are ...
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Lost ability to boot to any other disk after boot-repair recommended

I have many disks with OS'es. On one disk I had Ubuntu 16 and Windows 7 dual boot, and start OS'es on other disks from it's GRUB menu. Everything was fine before I used gparted for it's repartition: ...
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Duplicate Partitions Causing Issues?

I've observed an unusual event in the drives menu and after executing sudo lsblk -o name,mountpoint,label,size,uuid in terminal. I get this output after executing the command: There are multiple swap ...
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Question about partitioning hard drive, Ubuntu and Windows

I have recently downloaded Ubuntu and started using it. I am very happy and impressed with the software so credit to the developers. I do have a question however I have not been able to resolve. I ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 - How to assign unallocated space in /home partition using Gparted

Recently I moved to Ubuntu from OSX. I've formatted my SSD Storage by the help of some tutorials on web. This is the allocation of space: Initially I set 8GB of storage as swap but then I buy new ...
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Can't click on menu item in live-cd after using gparted

I'm trying out the new 16.04 desktop Xenial Xerus Live CD, and I've come upon a very peculiar thing: When I open the menu, I can select anything like normal, however when I open gparted and click on ...
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Why Ubuntu 16.04 installer not recognizing unallocated space?

I want to install Ubuntu 16.04 on an un-allocated space which I can see in Windows disk manager as following (78GB) . I also checked GPart software in live Ubuntu which is showing following picture. ...
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resizing an ntfs-partition without any loss of data, while running ubuntu (studio) from a live usb

This is my very first question on askubuntu. I know there are quite a few similar threads hanging around here and there, but most of the answers given have either proven to be too technical, or haven'...
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Cannot mount storage volume

I have Ubuntu Server 14.04.3. I connected a storage unit (IBM Storwize v3700). I cannot getting it to be mounted to the server. I followed the following steps. install multipath sudo multipath -ll ...
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Clean up partitions

I'm trying to fix my partitions, and start using all the space on my hdd again. I had Windows 7 installed, using 3 partitions: System, Data, and Other then I installed Ubuntu using the Other partition ...
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/tmp running out of space, can't umount /tmp to cleanup (device busy)

When I tried installing VLC plugin libde265 , I got this error message E: Write error - write (28: No space left on device) E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. I also ...
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F2FS is being displayed as an "Unknown" file system after formatting my pendrive. Does anyone know the reason behind this?

I have tried formatting my Kingston 4GB pen drive to F2FS using "gparted" on ubuntu 14.04. After the format is completed, the tab under File System displays "Unknown" instead of "F2FS". Also, gparted ...
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How to merge a partition which is far away from the one I want to merge it with?

I have my disk partitioned the following way: I want to get rid of sda5 by merging it either with sda1 or sda6. I can't do that right now, can I? Because it's not placed next to either sda1 or 6. ...
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Need to expand the size of /boot

I want to upgrade to the newest version of Ubuntu, but I keep getting the error "Not enough free disk space". The upgrade needs a total of 90.6M of free space. My problem is that boot presently uses ...
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Problems while resizing bootable external drive :-(

Gparted hangs while trying to resize the existing ext4 bootable partion. How should I resize it to hold another partition for Windows ? In more details, I had made the 1TB external drive bootable (...
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Unable to resize deactivated partition in Gparted from LiveUSB

I am currently running Ubuntu 14.04 but would like to dual boot Windows. I am trying to resize my Ubuntu partition and create a new partition from Windows. I am doing this by booting from an Ubuntu 14....
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32GB sd card recognised as 2TB

I am running ubuntu 14.10 , i have a sd card of size 32GB [class 4].When i try to read it in Gparted ,it take immense amount of time and result in showing it as 2TB[2TerraByte].Same goes with sudo ...
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Cannot format micro sd card

I apparently did something wrong while trying to format my micro sd card 8 GB. I have used it for one and a half year in my old phone without any problems and now I wanted to format it to use in my ...
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Is a block size of 4 MiB on a partition of 99.06 GiB too big?

Its a new laptop I'm using, and currently installing Ubuntu 13.10 I am having to move 3 NTFS partitions to right, grow two of them to 99 GiB, and shrink one of them to 55.46 GiB. So to do this ...
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GParted bricked my USB Drive

I tried to use GParted to rename my USB Drive. Everything appeared to run smoothly, but when I removed the drive and reinserted it, it wouldn't mount. I can see the USB initialisation in dmesg, and ...
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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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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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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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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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Gparted Partition editor not working

I had Windows and installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows. I want to allocate suitable disk space to Ubuntu. I installed the Gparted Parition Editor from the Software Center. My problem is: It ...
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