GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
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not able to create boot partition in grub after resizing ubuntu partition
I booted from the live cd so that I could increase disk space and swap space of my ubuntu partition. Earlier I have windows partition as well but I deleted it and gave space to my ubuntu partition. ...
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Why can't I copy files to a USB drive partitioned by GParted?
I just formatted a brand-new USB external hard drive with a single ext4 partition using GParted. I want to back up my files so I can do a fresh install of Oneric on my only machine. Natty mounted the ...
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Need help with partitioning
I bought a new laptop with no OS and decided to try to Linux (Ubuntu) for the first time in my life. It was a clean install, my laptop had no other OS present in it, not even DOS.
While installing, ...
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Ubuntu and Windows together
I have Ubuntu and Windows installed together. I want to reinstall Ubuntu but I need to add some space from Windows D: disk. Is there any chance in losing data and if not please give me instructions.
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Can't format / delete locked partition from gparted?
I can't format my hard disk for Ubuntu installation. It has Fedora installed in it. I wonder how to unlock the locked partition to delete and format it, since I am stuck at installing Ubuntu. I am now ...
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Why doesn't Gparted show my USB stick?
I have a new 16 GB kingston flash pen that I cannot format
Gparted doesn't seem to see it
It has some windows exe and files on it
In do not have the format option as described here for ...
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Unable to mount NTFS Partition after resizing
I was having only 15 GB space allocated to LINUX. I wanted to have more space available to linux. So I just re sized one of my ntfs partition using GParted. But after resizing I am not able to open ...
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Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Low Disk Space
I started to receive "Low Disk Space" message on my Ubuntu Oneiric 11.04 few days ago.
With GParted I see that my /dev/sda1 where is system is only 1,17 Gb! and this is obviously not enough. I have 3 ...
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Windows XP can't access NTFS partitions created with gparted
First, I know this may be just an issue with Windows, but I guess people on the Ubuntu/Linux side may know this kind of issue better.
I just did a full system reinstall with new partitioning. I first ...
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Purging unused Ubuntu partition
I installed Ubuntu, on my work PC, a couple a years ago(2007?) on a separate partition. Typical setup that comes with the installation CD. The primary partition has WinXP. Due to new policies (and ...
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What does “Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected.” mean?
When starting gparted, it crashes with the error:
Gtk-ERROR **: GTK+ 2.x symbols detected.
Using GTK+ 2.x and GTK+ 3 in the same process is not supported
I already opened LP bug #1094354 for this.
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Gparted funkiness - won't recognize 1TB, full-hdd /home partition, but recognizes ext4 and /home label
I have a 1TB SATA hard disk from my old desktop, and the entire thing is an ext4 /home partition (/, /boot, and swap were all on another hdd). It is now in a USB2 enclosure and I want to use it to ...
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Unable to Boot Live CD to resize disk partition
I have a working version of 11.10 installed on VMware but I need to increase my disk space.
I tried to boot from iso (on windows drive), but neither F2, F12 or ESC seem to work. I wanted to boot from ...
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“Partition Misaligned by 1024 bytes” on encrypted lvm
Disk Utility is giving me the error "The partition is misaligned by 1024 bytes. This may result in very poor performance. Repartitioning is suggested" on a partition which holds an encrypted LVM.
I ...
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Why is Disk Utility (Palimpsest) the default and not GParted?
GParted seems to be the more robust and feature-rich application of the two, is there a reason as to why GParted is not installed by default in Ubuntu?
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How long does an ext4 format take?
The USB cable on my Iomega Prestige 1TB hard drive conked out a while back, and I've finally managed to get a new one. I removed the old NTFS file system because I use Windows maybe once a month, and ...
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Join unallocated space with GParted
I need to join a 96.47GB partition with 155GB partition with "GParted", without modify /dev/sda1.
How can I do it? D: See screenshot of GParted window here
Sorry for my poor english, I'm japanese xD
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How to use gparted to resize hdd?
I installed Gparted as I used to in 7.10 and was going to resize my partion when I saw that I can't resize my Ubuntu OS partion. I used to do it in 7.10 to dual-boot with Windows. But I'm locked out ...
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Cannot resize External 500 Gb HDD
Im trying to rezize my external 500gb portable hdd
but i cant... i get the follwing in gparted
GParted 0.8.1 --enable-libparted-dmraid
Libparted 2.3
Shrink /dev/sdb1 from 465.73 GiB to 444.31 GiB ...
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Instructions to mount an internal hard drive?
How do you mount an internal hard drive? I have a 500GB internal hard drive that has both linux and windows 7. Upon booting up I decide which one to use. My windows 7 OS has a user, which requires ...
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Recovering a lost file system off a hard drive?
I was repartioning my hard drive, and I was in the process of moving a partition left and resizing it, when I accidentally hit the "Cancel" button. While the partition itself was already resized, the ...
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Recommended dual-boot partitioning for Eee PC 1015PX-MU17
My younger brother has a brand-new Asus Eee PC netbook that we'd like to dual-boot Windows 7 Starter (already installed) with Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS. I created a 32-bit LiveUSB and booted it up after some ...
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Which numbers does fdisk show?
I have run sudo fdisk -l and have got the following information:
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 ...
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How to increase size of partition to take up unallocated space
I have a Ubuntu installation(sda3) with unallocated space that I want to use to use to increase the space of sda5 on the following picture:
The only problem is I cant resize it, gparted says im ...
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How to migrate Ubuntu/Windows 7 dualboot from HDD to HDD+SSD without reinstall?
I have a working dual-boot setup (Ubuntu 12.10 and Win7) on my laptop.
I got a 320GB HDD with partitions for /, /home, swap, winsys and a big windata partition. There's more than 250GB space occupied ...
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Resize partitions | gparted | swapoff fail
I have installed ubuntu 12.04 alongside winxp on my laptop.
I'm trying to resize partitions (shrink winxp - enlarge ubuntu) running Gparted from LiveUSB. I read that I have to swapoff the linux-swap ...
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Cannot increase Ubuntu partition with GParted. Maximum size
Before I started this, I went into Windows 8 and reduced it's size to allow roughly 10GB of unallocated data. I want to increase Ubuntu 12.10's partition to fill that void.
I ran Ubuntu (Trial) from ...
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can't resize lvm-p2 boot partition, even from live cd
I've got a MacBook Pro (late 2011). I just bought a 1TB HDD to replace the original 500GB. My plan was to partition the 1TB in half and let one side be Ubuntu and the other OS X (until I can ...
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GParted is stuck on “shrink file system” (hfs+)
I'm trying to install ubuntu 12.10 on am mac book pro 8.2 as a dual boot.
After disabling journaling on the mac hfs+ partition, I booted from the ubuntu mac cd and started gparted. There, I resized ...
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How to show Windows System Reserved partition using Ubuntu live dvd?
All questions in this site ask how to "hide"!
I want to fix my boot (fix mrb wont work, I have GPT Disk) by changing some files at Windows System Reserved. GParted shows the following partitions (but ...
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How to fix file system's CHS geometry?
I'm trying to check FAT16 file system with GParted and the check fails with the following message:
The file system's CHS geometry is (484, 16383, 63) is invalid. The partition table's CHS geometry ...
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how to convert free space to a ntfs partition
I have xp on my first hard drive and I installed ubuntu 12.04 onto a second hard drive drive. I left some unallocated space on that second drive that I would like to convert to a ntfs partition. Using ...
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Change MBR to GPT on external hard drive with data
Change MBR to GPT on external hard drive with data:
I found a way for the internal one here. However the External drive is a Data drive only, I dont't need to care about any bootloaders etc. So is ...
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Gparted moved Linux partition — no longer boots
I have a MacBook Pro with Mac OSX installed and Ubuntu 12.04. I wanted to resize my Ubuntu partition, so I booted to a 10.04 liveCD and used GParted to "move/resize" my Ubuntu partition.
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Gparted resize of an extended partition fails with error “can't have overlapping partitions”.
I just decided to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7 on my Dell laptop. However I didn't do this manually but instead used the "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7" option during the ...
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Maximizing HDD space on dual boot Fedora 16 and Ubuntu 12.04 system
My question is very specific. In the screenshot here of my GParted, you can see Fedora 16 installed on /dev/sda4 and Ubuntu (with the mount point "/") on /dev/sda6. Partition /dev/sda5 is taking up ...
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Does adding an partition in windows harm linux partitions?
I have a dualboot of windows 7 and ubuntu. Now I want to add an extra partition in windows with the internal partition manager. But does this hold any danger for the existing linux partitions? I mean, ...
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Increase Windows partition in a working dualboot
I have a dualboot with Precise and Windows 7, and the second partition has less space than the Ubuntu one. The Windows disk is almost full, so, is there a way to 'safely' resize them? Does GParted ...
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Messed up partition table, not recognizible
I managed to mess up the partition table of my main media HDD. gParted cannot recognize it anymore. There's everything I ever had since my first PC. I ran "attempt data recovery" in gParted (it ...
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Repartitioning dual booting Macbook
I have a Macbook Pro configured to dual boot OSX or Ubuntu. Originally, I split the drive evenly between the two, but as I've been using Ubuntu far more heavily, and I'm running out of space on its ...
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GParted black screen after waking up
I am running GParted with a live CD 11.04. Since it's a long job the screen goes into power save mode. When I move the mouse the screen comes back but the display is black and the cursor looks like ...
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Increasing ubuntu partition space
I have a laptop configured with dual boot (Ubuntu and win7). Partition in which Ubuntu in installed is running out of space(alloted only 15 GB space earlier).I want to use one of my empty partition ...
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What is the proper way to Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.10 Dual-Triple Boot Partitioning for Laptop OEM?
Hi Linux Community,
I find my self struggling with the slowness of windows OS once again.
It's Time to change with the Ubuntu 10.10 64bit for I like to use a faster Operating System.
My Hard Disk ...
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Encrypting a non-linux partition with LUKS
I have a non-Linux partition I want to encrypt with LUKS. The goal is to be able to store it by itself on a device without Linux and access it from the device when needed with an Ubuntu Live CD.
I ...
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Updated PPA for Gparted
I am looking for a PPA that has an updated version of GPARTED. The one in the official repositories is very old (Version 0.12.1). Since then, there has been 10 new versions. The last one was the 0.16 ...
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Shrink extended partition containing lvm
I have been bashing my head against the wall, regretting ever having opted into using LVM.
I need to shrink the 75GB /dev/sda2/ to make room for a new OS installation. To do this, I need to shrink ...
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How to unlock partition in Gparted?
Im new in using Ubuntu and I cant seem to make any partitions for a new dual boot OS and the swap file or for any other matter i would want to use the partition because the drive is locked.
I have ...
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Recommended dual boot partitioning for Asus N56VM s4089V Windows 7 64bit
Being brand new to this, although I've done alot of research, I would like confirmation that what I want to do is achievable with the current disk partition I have on my laptop.
Current set up via ...
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GParted doesn't work in 12.04 Live cd
Here is the output from fdisk runing from 12.04 Live:
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo fdisk -lu
Disk /dev/sda: 250.1 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders, total 488397168 ...
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Problem with resized partition
I have Ubuntu 12.10. I resized my sda5 from about 71GB to 43GB using gparted, I didn't get any errors. After restarting my computer, sda5 is gone both from Ubuntu and Windows (it was D: partition) and ...
