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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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G-parted, Need help expanding my home partition

I want to increase the size of my home partition (ext 4 in picture), I know how to expand partition if there is a free space to the right of my partition. But the partition to the right of my ext4 ...
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Copying files from a GParted live session doesn't show them properly on Windows

I recently asked this question. You might read it to see what problems I'm experimenting, but it's not needed. The thing is, I booted my computer from a live session of GParted, and I'm able to see ...
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Do I need to fix my weirdo partitions? I don't have root or /home

I'm running a dual-boot Ubuntu 16.04 with Windows 10. I wanted to resize my linux-swap partition. I did that: unmounted and deleted original, extended Ubuntu partition through new unallocated space ...
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Partitioning of hard disk using GParted in Ubuntu 16.04

I was going through my hard disk partitioning and found two partitions of which I have no idea about, /dev/sda8 and /dev/sda9. What do these partitions actually represent, and is it OK to delete them?...
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Gparted issue with Windows partitions (unable to read content) - dual-boot win7 ubuntu16.04

I have a dual-boot win7 and ubuntu 16.04 and wanted to shrink my windows partition. But when opening Gparted all the partitions are there but Gparted can't tell how much is used on my OSDISK (so can't ...
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Recovering Unallocated space on dual boot machine (Ubuntu, Win 10)

I am trying to recover some unallocated space on a Windows 10/ Ubuntu dual boot machine. I have a lot of unallocated space (633.42Gb). I tried to recover this using GParted but it will not let me ...
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How to extend ubuntu partition? [duplicate]

I attempted to extend my ubuntu partition using windows disk management, but quickly realized that you cannot extend a volume with this file system using that method. Here is an image of what disk ...
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I cannot Format my SSD with Gparted

So I have an external SSD with multiple partitions. I want to Format one of the partitions (to ntfs) with gparted. When plugging in the drive, gparted detects it and I can choose to format it. But ...
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gparted : error while applying operations

I tried to shrink the volume for Windows 7 in Ubuntu, And I got this error Error details: GParted 0.25.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize Libparted 3.2 Shrink /dev/sda5 from 297.61 ...
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ubuntu recognizes my partition as free space whereas it contains data

I have an internal HDD which I use it on another computer where it contains two operating systems (Windows and Linux). I connect it to my laptop via cable and mistakenly deleted the first partition of ...
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Ubuntu doesn't see a probably damaged SD card

I have a damaged sd card, so i would like to format it. First i tried with Windows. Windows see my sd card, but when i try to format it, i get error. After i tried with the chkdsk command, but i get ...
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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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How do I resize my Ubuntu partition? [duplicate]

I have Ubuntu 14 installed and it dual boots with Windows 10. I want to extend the size of the Ubuntu partition. I followed this article: How to extend my root (/) partition? But when I swapoff my ...
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Ubuntu installer/ fdisk/ gpart Can not find my SSD partition

I just bought a lenovo flex5 today. Windows 10 was installed on the computer. Trying to make a ubuntu partition for dual boot system. My process: -Made a 100GB free partition using windows 10 ...
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Unable to Resize Root Partition with unallocated space(Weird Partition Arrangement)

Have seen a few questions regarding this but didn't help my case. I have installed Ubuntu 17.04 alongside Windows 8 using a dual boot setup(Have to boot into ubuntu using f9 key and selecting device ...
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how do you determine which partion in dual boot pc is for ubuntu?

I am want allocate more hard drive space to Ubuntu on my lenovo ideapad, but I can't determine which partion I need to allocate the space too. Windows I know is the largest partition. the link below ...
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How to make 2 drives be 1 volume? [duplicate]

I have a 500GB drive and 20.0GB drive and i want to do a little experiment and see if i can make them be 1 : HOW I DO THAT ON Gparted ?
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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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shrink windows and extand ubuntu [duplicate]

I tried to shrink Windows and then expand Ubuntu. I did shrink Windows from within Windows and I boot Ubuntu from USB to add that unallocated space to Ubuntu but I cant do it. The option doesn't show....
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External hard-drive's FAT32 partition not recognized by Windows after size increase with gparted

I had an external hard-drive with a fat32 partition (which I used for exchanging files between ubuntu and windows), some unallocated space, and a ext4 partition (which I used to backup my linux system)...
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How to use the unallocated space above /boot to expand my root directory

here's the screenshot of my gparted screen. I am a newbie at Ubuntu and I dont think that deleting /boot and recreating it would be a wise idea since deleting it also formats it(i think). Please help ...
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How do I move unallocated, non-adjacent space to another partition?

My current partitions are as such, where sda7 is my swap partition and sd8 is my Ubuntu partition. I want to merge my unallocated space to sda8 but there are two partitions (sda5 and sda6) in between. ...
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Not able to extend root partition

I have dual boot system with ubuntu 17 and windows 10. Initially I had allocated 30Gb space for ubuntu(sda4), but now I want to increase this space. I tried this through Gparted in live usb ubuntu, ...
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Ubuntu won't allow me to merge two partitions

I must admit I am a noob at computers, but I somehow managed to install Ubuntu alongside Windows 10. But, during the process, I messed up the partitions. How can I merge F and /home? Here's the ...
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Allocate free memory from Windows to Linux partition

I want to add the unallocated memory to my Ubuntu partition on /dev/sda7 Without the need of re-installing or completely formatting anything, please. my problem is quite similar to this one but I ...
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Need to move 800GB partition to the right to make more space for Ubuntu. How long will it take in your experience?

I don't know if this is relevant on this forum. So I have the Following Partition structure on my PC. So, I was Going to delete the /dev/sda3, /dev/sda6 and the swap Partitions and move the /dev/sda4 ...
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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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Boot repair Error Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS

I am facing some problems after I rebooted my computer. It started to fail during booting. I am not sure what is the exact problem however I have noticed some weird problems in my BIOS setup, where ...
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GParted doesn't Start? [duplicate]

I have installed GParted in 17.10, GParted doesn't Start when I click on icon of GParted, and I tried to start it from terminal using sudo gparted it doesn't work too.
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Assign unallocated space to swap. No swap on disk currently [duplicate]

Assign unallocated space to swap. I have no swap on disk currently. When I change the unallocated space to a new partition the mount point is not /. so it is not detected in df -h . Gparted disk
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Gparted Unable to Resize

I have dual boot (Windows and Ubuntu) initially I had allocated 30GB for Ubuntu. Now I want to increase the size with unallocated space. But when I try do that using Gparted the resize is not showing ...
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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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How to create a bootable USB from a macOS dmg file?

I badly need to install macOS Sierra in a Macbook Pro (early 2015). I accidentally erase the contents of it's hard drive. The only option I have is using Internet Recovery, but I don't want to waste ...
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How do I clean up this partitioning mess? [closed]

A couple months ago, purchased a new 1TB HDD and tried cloning if off the working main 500GB drive. Eventually was unable to figure out how to do that so just reinstalled Ubuntu from a Live CD. After ...
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Give more space to my root partition [duplicate]

First of all, I know that this question has already been answer, but I need a little help. My "problem" is that I need to give more space to my root partition. This is my GParted screenshot:
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Gparted automatically crashes [duplicate]

When i attempted to launch gparted, it crashes and prints follwing on console. any idea to get rid of that? Thanks in advance! $ sudo gparted Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. ...
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Unallocated space does not come under /dev, thus can't use in other partitions

I have some unallocated space right adjacent to my Ubuntu root partition which I wanted it to extend into. I ran a live Ubuntu from USB and tried to expand the root using Gparted, but realized it didn'...
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Can't extend partiton with GParted

I've read lots of topics about this recently, but I got stuck every time trying to extend my partition. I booted from USB, chose Swapoff on linux–swap, but can not resize sda5, where my Ubuntu is. ...
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Ubuntu 16.04 new home partition

Recently I dual booted Ubuntu 16.04 (xenial) alongside Windows 10 on my Dell Inspiron 5547. I wanted to expand my Ubuntu partition, and prepared unallocated space but my Ubuntu ext4 partition is on ...
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LUKS not taken in charge with (X)ubuntu 16.04

I have a computer with Xubuntu 16.04. I want to create an encrypted data partition with LUKS. I started following this tutorial (which is for Ubuntu 16.10) but have encountered problems : The command ...
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Unable to read the contents of this file system, required for ntfs file system support: ntfsprogs / ntfs-3g, gparted

In my brother's single boot Ubuntu PC, I was trying to resize /dev/sda5 partition with gparted, which is in ntfs format, but found a warning, that showing— Unable to read the contents of this file ...
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Ubuntu on VirtualBox - GParted not showing added disk space

I'm running an Ubuntu VM using VirtualBox on Mac OSX I used VBoxManage modifyhd /path/to/vm/ --resize 40000 to add increase the space of my VM from 15GB to 40GB. I ran the VM and installed gparted ...
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gparted won't start under ubuntu 17.10 [duplicate]

I have been using gparted for years under any ubuntu version. gparted won't start under ubuntu 17.10. Is this a bug of ubuntu 17.10?
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Can't create new partition as disk sector count incorrect?

I used dd to copy a bootable 8GB USB disk image 16.04-server to a 1TB drive, which boots perfectly. I want to create a new swap partition at the end of the drive, before extending the capacity of the ...
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Ubuntu 17.10 Gparted, gksudo issue [duplicate]

Unable to use Gparted on 17.10. I have already tried "sudo xauth merge $HOME/.Xauthority" and with gksu and gksudo. Gksudo has another issue in Ubuntu 17.10. I am unable to enter password in the ...
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Can't copy paste or mkdir in a partition without root permission after creating it with gparted

This was the photo of my gparted from hdd: I wanted to increase the hdd space by unmounting and deleting the extended partition sdb1,then creating a new partition... Now in gparted,I have this: So ...
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Ubuntu to win7 how to

I have now tuxboot 0.7 and need to do Gparted live usb with it. Can you tell me what gparted file I need to download? I tried this once but failed. Tuxboot has usb drive option and after that Drive:...
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Resize main partition with unallocated space in front [closed]

Hi everyone I know there are couple of related questions but I have not found one that addresses it properly. Problem: I have installed elementaryOS 0.4.1 Loki (Ubuntu 16.04.03 LTS underneath) as a ...
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Unable to install grub. Partition outside the disk

When Ubuntu is installing on Sony Vaio VPCZ11Z9E from pendrive I have this error: Unable to install GRUB in /dev/sda Executing 'grub-install/dev/sda' failed. This is fatal error. Part of output from ...
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How to expand disk size with VirtualBox Ubuntu 16.04 VM

I have looked at some guides, but I'm confused and worried about messing up my VM. I expanded the disk size to 15gb from 10gb. So now I have 5gb unallocated space. When I right click on sda1, I don't ...
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