GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
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How do I repartition with GParted?
I wanted to create more space for Ubuntu on my hard disk in favor of my Windows partition. I booted the livecd and resized the NTFS partition to 100 GB. Then I wanted to resize my Ubuntu (ext4) ...
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How can I quickly copy a GPT partition scheme from one hard drive to another?
On a non GPT partition table I can do
sfdisk -d /dev/sda | sfdisk /dev/sdb.
But sfdisk doesn't support GPT partition tables. What can I use instead?
I'm looking for a one or two command solution, ...
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How do I resize my current ubuntu partition?
I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty.
Can I use ...
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How can I expand a partition into non adjacent free space using GParted?
My dual-boot machine has partitions as follows:
sda1 50 GB NTFS
sda2 15 GB unallocated
sda3 20 GB ext3
sda4 20 GB ext4
I would like to allocate the unused space on sda2 to my Ubuntu partition on ...
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Gparted: creating a new logical partition
I have Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Windows 7 on my computer.
I would create a new logical partition, and when I run sudo fdisk -l I get:
Dispositivo Boot Start End Blocks Id ...
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How can I resize an LVM partition? (i.e: physical volume)
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 ...
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Is it safe to resize root partition?
My HDD is partitioned into two equal sized partitions. First is being used for Windows and Second for Ubuntu. Everything is working fine. But now I want to remove Windows and use the disk completely ...
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Ubuntu installer thinks my drive is empty, does not see windows paritions
I am trying to install Ubuntu10.10 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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Recovering Grub [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I repair grub?
Are there some resources that could help me recover from Grub2 problems?
I installed Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 on my hard disk. I had Grub2 as ...
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What GPARTED alternatives are available?
What is a good partitioning tool for Ubuntu 10.X as an alternative to GPARTED?
I haven't been able to find one that is easy to use.
A commercial product is OK if necessary for ease of use.
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Is gparted a good tool for resizing an NTFS partition?
I have a dual-boot setup. (Ubuntu / Vista) I need to shrink the partition that Vista is installed on. (It's an NTFS partition.) I tried using Vista's own disk manager, but it didn't work.
I heard ...
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How can I resize an external USB NTFS partition?
I have a new USB drive which came with a single NTFS partition.
How can I shrink that so that I can create an ext4 partition?
gparted does not seem to have the "Resize" option highlighted.
Update:
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How can I increase a partition's size?
On my laptop I have Ubuntu 11.10 and Windows 7 in dual boot mode.
I made a partition of 30 GB for Ubuntu but now it's too small and I want to increase this disk size from 32 GB to 100 GB.
This is ...
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How to mount partition permanently?
I am using Ubuntu Minimal + LXDE. I am wondering how can I auto-mount a partition (internal) on boot automatically. Currently I do something like
mount /dev/sda3 /works
But I want it to be ...
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Read-only filesystem
I've resized a partition (ext4) from a Live CD with GParted, and after reboot it says that the file system is read-only.
I've rebooted again from the CD and checked it with GParted with no errors.
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How safe is GParted when resizing Linux and Windows partitions?
I want to resize my partitions: I have 3 partitions:
Ubuntu 10.04
Windows Seven
Ubuntu 11.10
It's booting with the boot installed by the Ubuntu 11.10 version.
I want to expand (only expand) all ...
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ext4 partition size / free space discrepancies
While creating a 250GiB backup partition for my data, I have noticed lots of discrepancies between reported partition size and free space in Nautilus, gParted, df, tune2fs, etc.
At first I thought it ...
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Partition does not start on physical sector boundary?
I've one HD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap).
fdisk is giving me a Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary warning. What is the ...
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Increase the /home partition without losing the data
I have a 320 GB harddrive with three partitions / , /home and swap. What I want to do is change the size of swap which now is 8 GB to 5 GB and append that 3 GB to my /home partition. I have searched ...
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How do I restore a swap partition I accidentally deleted?
I accidentally deleted my swap partition via gparted.
(I'm still logged in the system so restoring should be easier) Can someone help me please? I'm not sure how to configure it because the Ubuntu ...
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swap is only being recognized when trying ubuntu from live CD
I recently increased space and swap space for ubuntu on my laptop. Even though the space got increased, my swap is not being recognized. It is showing as 0 bytes of space. However, interestingly, when ...
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Can I use gparted to resize a Truecrypt-encrypted partition?
I have an external drive with two partitions - one encrypted, the other not so.
I'd like to move all the data to the encrypted partition, and then resize it to take up the whole drive.
If I use ...
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How can I resize NTFS partition in GParted?
My family PC has Windows Vista and lately it has became unusable, having strange errors and taking hours to do anything at all, so I'm installing Ubuntu 11.10 alongside it. I went into GParted to ...
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Add unallocated space to extended partitions
In a PC where I need to install Ubuntu, I have the following disk partitions from the left side of partition table as of now:
NTFS - Primary windows vista
Extended - 3 Nos. all NTFS - middle one ...
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How to shrink Ubuntu LVM logical and physical volumes?
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 as the only OS on my system.
I told Ubuntu to overwrite everything as I was in a hurry, hence I only have the two partitions Ubuntu creates, the Boot Partition of a ...
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Copying root partition and /home to a new larger hard drive
I am getting a larger hard drive and would like to copy root directory to it. The partition for root is 20G. I would like to make it larger on the new drive. I also would like to copy /home to a ...
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error while trying to resize the partition
im running out of space and i tried to resize the partition using g-parted but i got an error:
Checking for bad sectors ...
Bad cluster: 0x2904636 - 0x2904636 (1)
Bad cluster: 0x290526d - ...
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Is it possible to use an Ubuntu Live CD and run GParted to partition a my HDD (including the partition that is usually mounted on a given system)?
I'm encountering a problem with my HDD's partitions and can't resize it. I've described my problem and my system here: GParted 0.3 encounters problem with file system and won't resize partition.
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Why cannot install Lubuntu 12.10 on an extended partition?
This is about an older computer (Toshiba Satellite M70 that a friend wants to keep afloat) on which (beside Win XP) was installed the Xubuntu 11.10 system that would not work for some reason: now the ...
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Can I resize my partitions?
The following is a screenshot of my current partitions, shown by gparted:
Note that the partitions on the right of /dev/sda3, without labels on them in the figure,
are /dev/sda6 (for /home), ...
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Split a partition with GParted
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 ...
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Wanting to understand LVM & the default setup
From what I understand LVM allows me to
resized and moved around almost at will ~ from here
Then I thought, with the usual partitions, I can also resize them? Perhaps with LVM I can have 1 ...
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Why can't I create a partition table on my USB flash drive using GParted?
I have a blank USB flash drive I want to put a new filesystem on. If I try adding a new partition it complains "No partition table found on device /dev/sdc". Creating a msdos partition table seems to ...
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GParted wont resize extended partitions
I have dual booted windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have decided that I need more space on my Ubuntu partition. I used gparted on a Live CD to shrink my Windows 7 partition (/dev/sda3) but when i ...
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Unallocated space, how to resize /home partition?
I removed my Windows OS and now I want to resize my /home partition with that unallocated space. The main problem is that the free space is not under my sda4. How to move it there and then resize my ...
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Gparted can't create ext3 or ext4 partitions
I have a 60Gb drive in a Dell Latitude D600. It all started with trying to install 10.10 as a dual boot. First installation failed at the partitioning stage, next I tried manual partition that also ...
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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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I cancelled gparted operation ,what to do next?
I cancelled gparted operation by mistake .Now one of the partition became corrupted ,what to next? Should I format it? Data is important to me ;(
Edit1: I tried to recover partition using testdisk ...
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Formatting USB stick with 11.10 is unreadable with Windows 7
If I format a USB stick (any) on my Ubuntu 11.10 system, they are unreadable with my Windows 7 system.
I have tried both NTFS & FAT but Windows refuses to see the drive as having been formatted ...
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External HDD shows up in /dev/, but inaccessible via [g]parted
I have an external 80G hard drive, connected with USB. I've used this for multiple things in the past, including running an Ubuntu OS off it (I know, bad idea). In any case, it came unplugged while I ...
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How can I get rid of 1mb of unallocated space at the end of this table? (Gparted - see screenshot)
I can't seem to find a way to extend or move this 1mb, but it's really bugging me.
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Unable to install software through Ubuntu Sotware Centre on Ubuntu 9.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install software or upgrade from old unsupported release?
I tried to install gparted through USC and an error showed up "installArchive()failed:". Trying to ...
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Resizing my ubuntu ext4 partition [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Resize partition with GParted
I want to resize my ubuntu sda5 partition (basically merge it with the unallocated 87 GB space). but the Resize/move option for sda5 is not ...
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Shrink NTFS Windows 7 Partition with GParted [duplicate]
I am running a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. Initially I allocated about 20GB for my Ubuntu partition; however, I quickly ran out of that space and am now looking to expand my ...
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Unallocated space with important data
I used GParted to convert a primary partition to extended one after copying the data to another partition. After having the extended partition I moved the data back. To my utter shock after a restart ...
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How do I resize root partition?
I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do ...
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How do I fix the Gparted message : Error while reading block at sector xxx?
When I tried to move one of my partitions, I got some error messages. Here are some extracts:
Move /dev/sda7 to the left 00:05:09 ( ERROR )
(...)
check file system on /dev/sda7 for errors and ...
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Shrinking file system taking a lot of time,Normal?
I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data. I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an ...
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Is it safe to resize home and root partition
I'd like to shrink my root partition as it is 20gb and I only use 5-6 gb. I was going to shrink it with gparted and use the free space for my home partition (root and home partitions are sda6 and sda7 ...
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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 ...
