Questions tagged [gparted]
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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Ubuntu 16.10 extend partition from unallocated space
i did not realise that I needed more space back then.
I have almost no space left, I resized the windows HDD from windows.
Now I have 15 gb unallocated space, I want to extend to my ubuntu partition.
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Add unallocated space to NTFS partition
I know there are so many questions like mine but I just couldn't find out why my NTFS partition won't resize to take the unallocated space that is next to.
Here you can see my partition scheme
So I ...
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Increase Ubuntu 16.04 Partition Size [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows, giving it 50 Gb of space. Now, I need more space. I'm using gParted and I managed to unallocate a piece of partition. How can I extend Ubuntu with the space ...
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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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Move space from one partition to the other
I have tried to move the space from one partition to the other using GParted.
But it is not working out for me, the disk seems locked (considering the key), and I have tried to unmount it:
$ sudo ...
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GParted shows my 500 GB external hard drive as 1.82 TiB, and now I cant mount or acces it
Well,, I was trying to do a dual boot installation of Windows/Ubuntu.
Somewhere I somehow messed up. ( I was constantly formating, partitioning and booting my external 500GB HDD), and now it will not ...
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Resize partition using Gparted without losing data [duplicate]
I have a HDD capacity of 1.32 TB. I have more space left unused in my / partition. I want to extend /home by shrinking / without losing any data.
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How should I increase the size of the root partition?
sorry if this question is a duplicate (first-time poster), but I want to make sure I don't majorly screw up my partitions.
My root (/) partition is running low on space, and I have ~20GB of ...
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How to Extend Ubuntu OS Partition Size from Unallocated Partition?
I am using Ubuntu 16.10 ( along with Windows 7 ) in a partition of around 35 GB. Recently I need to extend this size due to lack of space. So I have shrink 25 GB space from Windows ( left as ...
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Resizing Extended Partition w/ gparted on livecd
As you can see, I have swapoff and don't have any of the partitions mounted.
I want to increase the size of /dev/sda1, and in order to do that I have to shrink /dev/sda2. I have unallocated space in ...
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Windows 10 shows Critical_Process_Died after working on partition on Gparted Ubuntu 16.04
so I was trying to free up disk space using Gparted on Ubuntu 16.04. There are some disk containing unknown label of 128 MiB on it and I wanted to make merge it to other drives to free up some space. ...
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Gparted : How can I merge unallocated space to my Ubuntu? [duplicate]
It was my initial status, so I wanted to reduce Windows 10 storage (dev/sda3) and merge that unallocated space to my Ubuntu
There are unallocated space left to Ubuntu space.
But when I try to expand ...
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How to resize the / partition
Current state of affairs:
I'm trying to add space to sd6, using all the unused space in sda3 (where windows is). I read through a problem someone uploaded on here that seemed similar- and I think I ...
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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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I formatted a USB drive and now it says the destination is read only [duplicate]
The Problem
It was a bootable Ubuntu USB drive at first I tried to format it using Nautilus it didn't work, then i simply deleted the partition using Gparted and created a new FAT32 partition. but ...
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How to resize boot partition or to free space for it? [duplicate]
I've been getting these messages right after I boot telling me I don't have enough space in my boot partition anymore. Today I reached a point I can't install anything else because of this. So I ...
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Problems resizing root filesystem with extended-partition, lvm, and snapshots on vm disk
I set the disk size of my root drive too low, and need to expand it. Default install of Ubuntu 16lts server.
I've searched and the answers/solutions found do not address the issue. (the problems ...
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Ubuntu is freezing
I was running a dual boot of windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04. my Ubuntu was running out of disk space and I decided to go to windows and resize the Ubuntu partition to a larger volume but realized it was ...
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Resize working ext4 partition [duplicate]
I would like to resize ext4 partition in order to make place for windows storage. Unfortunately I can't resize it - gparted will not allow me to do that:
How to solve this problem?
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Can't run gparted in fresh system
Trying to run gparted in fresh installed Ubuntu. System not found this program. When I try to install I have report that it is already installed. How to solve this problem?
g@g-Lenovo:~$ gparted
The ...
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Cannot save the partition table and format sd card using gparted and fdisk
I have a SanDisk 32 GB microsd card that i have been using for my smartphone. A few days ago the sd card crashed and i cannot access any files on my card.
I tried using testdisk utility as i did ...
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Problem when i try to add an unallocated space to a existing partition /dev/sda8 /home [duplicate]
Before writing this post I have try two way to resolve this problem.
I attack the screenshot of my gparted which I would add the unallocated space to the /dev/sda8 /home.
First way: I used the ...
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USB HD does not show up in dev/
2TB USB drive does not show up at dev/ when I plug in. All other questions and answers seem to assume that the device is visible to these type of commands: lsblk, lshw, lsusb, parted, gparted, fdisk.
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GParted does not work to format my USB FlashDrive, Etcher works but lacks of options
I want to format my USB FlashDrive that was used as an Ubuntu bootable .iso.
I plugged in my FlashDrive into my laptop, then opened GParted, however it says The driver descriptor says the physical ...
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What to do with an ISO once you've mounted it (gparted)
I've downloaded the gparted "application" from a website using my windows machine, i've put the .iso image onto a usb and transfered it onto my linux machine. I've then followed some instructions and ...
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How to merge my root partition with unallocated space [duplicate]
I have installed Debian as a pure installation in the whole disk. After that I installed another linux distribution alongside Debian. This installation split up my drive in two drives sdb1 and sdb2 ...
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How do I extend ext4 partition using GParted? [duplicate]
I don't know how to extend partition sda6 (ext4) with the unallocated space 265.54 gib
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how to restore the hard disk data after gparted deleted them when converting to GPT
I was trying to install windows 10 when I face a messege want me to convert the partition to GPT .
I used gparted : Device -》create partition table -》then I choose the GPT and in moment I get ALL the ...
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Cannot format SD card with ubuntu
I did something terrible to my SD card and I do not know how to format it.
I do not see the card with Nautilus, Gparted, nor fdisk. So I am not able to use answers from other questions I found here.
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Can't remember which partition Ubuntu is on
Basically, I'm dual-booting windows 10 with Ubuntu, but for the life of me I can't remember which partition it's on.
I ran the disk management tool, and it showed these results.
Normally I'd be able ...
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Resizing partitions : give memory to root from home partition
I want to resize my root partition using Gparted and there is a very similiar question Resize root partition from home partition space (swap in the middle).
But my home is above my root, and someone ...
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Can I delete GRUB which doesn't appear at startup?
I have just installed Ubuntu 16.04 (on legacy) alongside Windows 10 (on UEFI) on a Dell Inspiron 5567. It works fine.
I have arranged it so that Ubuntu boots first. Windows can be booted from BIOS. I ...
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Recovering data from a non-booting HDD laptop hard drive [duplicate]
I am trying to recover data from my HDD 500 GB Seagate Momentus 7200.2 internal hard drive i use in my Dell Studio XPS 1640 with Vista Home Premium.
Here are the things I have tried:
I tried ...
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Installed GParted but it's not opening
I tried to open GParted after installing it, as it was not preinstalled in Ubuntu Gnome 16.10, but it just asked for root password but didn't open.
Then I tried to open from terminal and it showed ...
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Extending linux root partition with unallocated space
I have set my PC to dual boot Linux and windows 10.
I have cut some space from my C:/ partition in windows using some program.
now i want to extent the root Linux partition with that unallocated ...
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Cannot create a linux partition in GParted because of warnings and minimum size and maximum size are the same
I have a 64 bit system with a 500 gb hardrive and 8 gb of RAM.
I am trying to dual boot Ubuntu 16.04.2 and Windows 10. I used universal USB installer to mount GParted live 0.28.1amd64 and when i boot ...
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How to Resize My Hard Drive in Ubuntu Using G Parted Partiton
Hi i am installed Ubuntu on my 500GB Hard disk. Now i want to install windows 10 on it. But for this i want to resize my 500GB Hard disk. But G Parted Partition does not allow me to make new partition ...
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Extend the ubuntu root partition with unallocated space [duplicate]
I don't seem to be able to figure out how to extend the disk space on Ubuntu 16.
Currently I'm stuck with this situation:
I want to extend the /dev/sda6 with the unallocated memory above it which I ...
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gparted does not recognise windows 10 partition [duplicate]
I have a lenovo yoga 900 with windows 10 pre-installed in a 250GB SSD hard drive. I am trying to install Ubuntu 16.04 alongside windows. I am using a bootable USB stick and have selected the option "...
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How To Make Partiton For Windows 10 [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu as my main OS and windows 10 is my secondary OS. I have a 500gb hdd.i want to create a new partition or resize my main Ubuntu partition.
How can I do it? Gparted partition don't ...
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How to allocate free space from Window sda, and append to Ubuntu's partition the additional free space?
This is what I see when I run gparted.
I have just installed Ubuntu, and found out that this system is really cool. So, I decided to increase the size of Ubuntu, (sda6) as indicated here Resize Move ...
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Partitioning the remainder of a bootable pen drive
Following this advice, I've used gnome-disks to create a bootable pen drive containing an image of xenial. After doing so, here's what the pen drive looks like
I'd like to use the rest of the ...
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Deleted all my hard-drive partition by mistake (g-parted)
I think I have done one of the most stupid things in my life! I wanted to format a pen drive, so I opened g-parted and mindlessly started deleting all the partitions on the drive except one that I ...
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I wish to resize(grow) my Ubuntu Root partition using GParted [14.04 LTS / Win10 Grub Dual Boot ]
A long time ago I had allocated only 90 (89.24) GB to my root partition assuming it would be enough for my needs. Alas I now require some space heavy tools like Matlab and larger datasets to process ...
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expand / and /home partitions
I know similar questions have been asked before, but I can't seem to make them apply in my case. My current situation is this
My hope is to shrink the swap partition and add most of it to sda5 and 6 ...
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How do I create a partition in Ubuntu 16.04 after installation?
I did not install lvm for my system. The main partition is the os partition and I want to create two sub partitions of 150 GB and 80 GB.
Also I am unable to unmount the /dev/sda/ in gparted in live ...
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How can i extend my ubuntu partition? [duplicate]
I am using ubuntu 16.04 in dual boot with windows 10.
This is how my disk profile in Gparted looks like, how should I use those unallocated 300 GB (or some of it) to extend my ubuntu ext4 partition, ...
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Partitions on Multiple Harddisks Ubuntu 16.04
I recently purchased Lenovo Thinkpad P50 (i am not sure whether Ubuntu has all the drivers for this Laptop).
But what i waned to do is i have installed 2 additional m.2 500gb SSD's. So now it has 1 ...
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Unable to do partitioning through gparted
I have just installed Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and after installation when I'm trying to partition the disk, the maximum I'm able to allocate is 48MB.
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