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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GParted can't make new partition by resizing
I'm trying to install a partition on Windows, but when I try to resize the partition I have for Ubuntu, it just doesn't let me resize it to make a new partition, I've unlocked the key and everything, ...
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Cannot access disk partition (created by gparted) from windows 10 [closed]
I Cannot access disk partition (created by gparted) from windows 10.
There are two disks in my laptop:
Disk 1 (Windows 10 | ntfs)
Disk 2 (Ubuntu 16.10 | ext4, swap, ntfs)
I wanted to have that ntfs ...
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How to allocate unallocated disk space with GParted Live?
I am trying to increase VMWare Ubuntu disk size. I already expand it. Now I read need to use GParted Live. I already mounted it:
But how do I run GParted Live? Which file should I double click? I ...
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I failed to safely eject my USB drive and data became invisible… how do I get it back? [duplicate]
My USB was in the USB port and at the time I was copying something to my HDD I decided to cancel it. Immediately afterwards I decided to remove the USB but I forgot to press safe eject.
As a result ...
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Move Partitions For Space
I'd like to increase the partition space on my Ubuntu. I've made an empty partition, but it is to the left of my Ubuntu. In between the free space and the Ubuntu partition is my 512 boot partition.
I ...
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Is is possible to format a disk to behave like a CD-R?
Is it possible to configure a partition/disk to have non-removable content like a CD-R?
By this I mean
I can write on the partition/disk only on empty "parts"
The written content cannot be changed ...
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how to remove write protected system on usb?
i have deleted a usb disk using Gparted , and i am trying to create new disk using the unlocated space .. and i found this message
Can't write to /dev/sdb, because it is opened read-only.
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Resize linux partition and merge NTFS
I am trying to clean up my partitions and wondering the best way to do this without making my computer unbootable or having to resinstall Ubuntu.
Here's what my current partition setup looks like:
I ...
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Cannot access the Windows D: drive from Ubuntu
I completely removed Windows and installed Linux today and now I can't access D:\ . I get that it has something to do with windows partitioning but I can't figure out what to do without removing the ...
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Gparted: What does it mean when a partition is labeled as Image?
I wish to merge two partitions to increase the size of / on my laptop. This is what I see on Gparted
/dev/sda5 is labeled as Image. I am not sure whether this implies VirtualBox image. But if it does,...
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Gparted doesn't see HDD
I wan't to resize my Linux partition. To do that I boot in a Ubuntu 14.04 live USB drive and open gparted.
Now the thing is that Gparted only shows my usb drive and not my HDD. Can't choose my HDD ...
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How to fix usb stick so I can format it with gparted
I formated a usb stick on a windows system using Fat32, but windows automatically allocated 2084bytes and I didn't notice, so when I made the stick bootable and used it, but when I wanted to format it ...
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re-allocate partition space from windows to linux
I installed Ubuntu 16.04 a while ago (that was a scary thing to do) alongside Win10 in dual-boot mode and really started to like it. Thus, I decided to install more stuff on it and, accordingly, ...
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Partition resizing and conversion
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 and my partition structure is as follows:
/dev/sdb2 ext2 / 130GB
/dev/sdb6 swap 20GB
/dev/sdb5 ext4 /home 350GB
There ...
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I wish to expand my LVM2 partition
When I run gparted I show the following partitions...
/dev/sda1 ext2 243mb boot
/dev/sda2 extended 39.76 gb
/dev/sda5 lvm2 39.76 gb lvm
unallocated ...
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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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Replacing HDD with a smaller SSD [closed]
I have a dual boot system (Ubuntu 16.04 and Windows 7 64 bit).
I boot from a HDD that contains both operating systems and use another 1tb HDD for data.
I want to replace the HDD containing the OS's ...
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Dual boot W10/Ubuntu 16.04 partitioning question
I am new to linux and bougth recently a MSI computer with a 1TB HDD + 128 GB SSD running FreeDos. I am trying to do a dual boot Win10 + ubuntu 16.04.1.
I started by installing Win10 on the 1 TB HDD. ...
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How can I prevent Windows 10 from corrupting the ext4 superblock every time?
I have a pc with dual-boot Ubuntu/Windows since more than 5 years.
The last working configuration was : windows 10 and Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
I install Ubuntu 16.10 on the Linux partition and have some ...
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Increase persistent Casper RW file
Completely new to Linux, decided to install Xubuntu onto a usb using the universal usb installer. I have a 64gb usb stick. I set everything up, booted into live - persistent and everything seemed ...
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How can I extend my Boot partition?
Is it possible to extend my boot partition without having to format the whole disk? Here is what my configuration looks like:
Thanks in Advance
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Partitioning in ubuntu as only os
I am a total newbie. just installed Ubuntu and erased my windows , so i have Ubuntu as my main now, i have 2 questions:
After finishing installation, there is a 512 mb partition. 8 GB swap, and 900 ...
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Transfer extra space of dual-boot partition to Ubuntu disk
I got aroudn 1TB of disc space in this computer. There are two partitions, one with 850gb and another one with around 110gb and two OS, Windows 8 and Ubuntu 16.
Ubuntu has 30gb only.
There are 16gb ...
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Why can't I use my unllocated disk space?
I want to increase my /home partition size and merge in the unallocated disk space. How can I do this please?
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is the system corect after deleting swap and merging with root?
i have deleted the swap partition and merged with root , now this is how the Gparted looks like:
so is everything correct because i see 2 partitions apart from boot and i suspect it should be the ...
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Gparted re-partitioning on a dual boot
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Above is my gparted config, I want to move 100GB from etc!!! (sda3) to my ntfs partition (sda4). However the unallocated space comes to the left of the windows partition. If I subsequently resize ...
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Lost access to ubuntu when changing home partition
I was running out of space on my linux partition so I decided to move the /home to another drive. I had around 16.6 GB free space and would have loved to add it to the existing drive, GParted was not ...
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migrating to RAID1
my computer was polluted a bit when I upgraded Ubuntu to 16.04.1 from 15.10, and not everything works (I have to use xterm instead of gnome-terminal, etc.) I plan to fix the 'pollution' by doing a ...
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Can I create a dedicated partition for GParted and launch from GRUB? [closed]
I very often adjust partition sizes and move them, so wondered if I could launch GParted from my hard drive. According to this link on the GParted site:
GParted Live on Hard Disk
It appears that I ...
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Resizing Ubuntu ext4 partition using Gparted live dvd fails [duplicate]
I'm trying to shrink my ext4 ubuntu partition using a gparted live dvd by 50 gb for a windows NTFS partition. It's failing as shown below:
My problem is different from the other one because I've ...
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How can I get Gparted to shrink NTFS partition?
I have been trying to dual boot my 2008 Macbook Air with Windows 10 and Ubuntu. The 16.04 live DVD boots but does not offer the option to install alongside Windows 10. When I try Gparted to shrink the ...
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New Ubuntu, combining two separate primary partitions [duplicate]
As you can see in the below screenshot, my partitions are essentially empty.
I just installed Ubuntu today, I had created a brand new partition to support my Ubuntu OS. However, after it ...
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Extending Disk Size - Ubuntu 16.04 - Virtualbox (.VHD) - Windows 10 Host
I am new to Linux, and VirtualBox. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 using Virtualbox on Windows 10 host. Initially I had setup the virtual machine to use 8 GB, Dynamically Extendable drive (VHD).
I am ...
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How to resize LVM partition on a RAID 1
I am running Ubuntu 14.04 in a RAID 1 configuration. How do I expand one of my LVM partitions as my /var partition is 100% filled up? I have tried to boot in rescue mode but gparted is not available ...
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resizing ubuntu root parittion
I want to expand /dev/sda5 partition but the unallocated space that can be used for expanding is not in ubuntu installation partition table. is there any way to move unallocated space to this ...
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How do I merge two ext4 partitions?
So I have two partitions, an 80 GB Partition (where I installed Ubuntu on) and a 44 GB partition (With nothing on it), Both are ext4 partitions.
How do I merge them into one without losing my data?
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What do these GParted instructions mean?
I just successfully shrank my Windows partition using GParted to make room for a shared data partition for both Ubuntu and Windows. It warned me:
What do instructions 1 and 3 mean? I didn't know I ...
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Merge partition with partition on the left
I have the following partitions
I have no problem translating the image, as it is in Dutch, but it should be self-explanatory.
I want to merge /dev/sda8 with /dev/sda5 without losing data from /dev/...
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Old partition to create new partition
A few years ago I started using Ubuntu because somehow my computer was unable to work with Windows. Ubuntu worked perfectly since then, except for today. Today I turned on my computer and had this ...
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How do I boot from USB on Ubuntu 16.10 with grub2? [duplicate]
Want to shrink my windows partition and then increase the size of my Ubuntu one. I could not find a clear answer already, so I'm asking this.
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How to move system partition on same hdd? [duplicate]
So I currently have an inconvenient partition config on my win7/ubuntu system. what i wanna do is to have the extended sdb3 moved ajar like in the screenshot to later add a swap and home partition (...
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how can I resize my Ubuntu partitions
I installed Ubuntu16.04.1 on an external hard disk, with win7 on the internal hard disk. The grub file is on the external drive.
The external drive is 1TB. and I used the last 50 GB for Ubuntu. Now I ...
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Disk space problem while installing Ubuntu 14.04
I have encountered a problem while installing Ubuntu 14.04 modified for it@school educational purposes. I have a Windows 7 PC running and have enough space with both NTFS and Unallocated. But I have ...
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How can I repartitioning Ubuntu using "unallocated" spaces at random parts of my hard drive? [duplicate]
I have this unallocated space before my root partition and GParted doesn't let me add it to my Ubuntu partitions. I am running Ubuntu from a USB drive. While it lets me add it my Windows partitions. ...
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How can I extend the partition of Ubuntu when it's installed on the last partition? [duplicate]
As can be seen in the picture
My Ubuntu is installed on /dev/sda4, which is located after the unallocated space. I neither can resize /dev/sda4, /dev/sda5 nor /dev/sda6.
Is there any way to extend ...
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Ubuntu Virtual Machine Hard Drive re-size (GParted) [duplicate]
I have changed the size of the vhd. I am running GParted from an iso through Oracle VirtualBox Manager. Gparted will not let me add the extra memory unallocated to the main partition. Can anyone ...
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Extending ubuntu partition disk memory with unknown filesystem partition in between
So I'm trying to give my ubuntu 16.04 partition more disk space by booting from a pendrive with ubuntu and gparted. I already have a 40gb unallocated disk space, however after watching a few videos, ...
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How to restore the original size of this flash drive? [duplicate]
Using GParted:
This flash drive is a 1GB Kingston flash drive, in GParted it shows 8MB of space remaining, and when I try to create a partition table for it, it loads but nothing changes at all, so I ...
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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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Reallocate Swap Space [duplicate]
I have a PC with 4 GB ram and while installing I allocated a 40 GB partition as swap space (Overkill right!!). Now I check the amount of space that was utilised and it was just 0.4% of the 40GB. I ...
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