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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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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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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Increase/extend (resize) OS X partition with GParted
I have a Mac and am dual booting Ubuntu. I booted from a USB and used GParted to shrink the Ubuntu partition leaving me with about 100G of free space. I want to use this to increase the OS X ...
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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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resize an encrypted disk?
so I've been using Ubuntu gnome for about 6 months+ now , and I wanted to install windows alongside as dual boot, but first I need to partition my disk so I can install windows on a separate partition,...
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USB stick shows up as two drives!
I was given a free 1GB USB at an event a few months ago - however, when I plug it in to my Ubuntu laptop, the USB shows up as two drives (/dev/sdb and /dev/sdc). I have checked it isn't just ...
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What are the consequences laptop running out power while GParted is running?
I was fixing my partition with GParted and it seemed to work well.
But, my laptop suddenly ran out of power and I didn't realize it, then it turned off while GParted was still running which was at ...
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Installing ubuntu 14.04 or higher on PCIe G3x4 SSD with Windows pre-installed
I just recently bought this laptop with Windows 10 pre-installed in it on the SSD. I want to install Ubuntu 14.04 on this SSD (does not matter if I have to remove Windows for that) and use 1 TB HDD to ...
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How to install gparted in ubuntu 16.04 [duplicate]
When I used the command following output is showing.
$ sudo apt-get install gparted
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate ...
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Using Gparted to Completely Clear A Drive
What I need is to 100% clear and un-format a 3TB drive. Nothing more. It seems doing this from GParted, however when I try to put information onto the drive after formatting with another source, it ...
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1TB External USB Hard Drive format problems on Ubuntu 20.04
I've recently tried a number 1 or 2TB external hard drives on USB as backup and hoping to use for deja-dup. The one I had previously was fine but it's full and I don't want to loose it. I've tried ...
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Gparted will not let my edit and do changes to my partitions
I want to shrink my /dev/sda1 partition but gparted will not let me do any editing and alterations to anything. Note that everything is in gray, so that I cannot edit anything. How can I fix this? I'm ...
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Making A Partition with Gparted - Unmount?
I need to create some space to that I can dual-boot with Windows. Looking at Gparted, it seems that to do that, I need to unmount my /dev/sda1 which contains my Ubuntu system. While searching online, ...
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How to split the disk partition having Ubuntu? [duplicate]
I want to create partition of my Hard Disk but the partition contains Ubuntu installed in it. I have GParted installed but since the partition contains Ubuntu I can't unmount. Is there any way I can ...
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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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“Please run ‘e2fsck -f /dev/nvme0n1p7’ first” when trying to resize partition using GParted
I’m running GParted from a live usb. When GParted tries to execute resize2fs -p /dev/nvme0n1p7 It throws an error and says “Please run ‘e2fsck -f /dev/nvme0n1p7’ first”.
I have tried running the above ...
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How to change partitions on Ubuntu virtual machine?
Original Question: How to resize root partition without live CD?
I have a virtual machine that I need to make bigger. I made the VM img larger and now I need to resize the partitions so I can use the ...
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Hard drive won't mount
Running sudo fdisk -lu returns the hdd I want to mount as
Disk /dev/sdb
but when I try to mount it from KDE Partition Manager it doesn't show some directories when I try to set up a path (tried ...
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Why is xfs filesystem type greyed out in Gparted?
I have a large hd that only 1/2 of it is an ext4 for /home. I am trying to make another partition using the XFS filesystem but its greyed out in Gparted. From what I have read here https://wiki.ubuntu....
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Not able to see other partitions in ubuntu file manager with GParted running
I have an ubuntu dual booted alongside windows 10. Initially I was able to see other partitions such as C drive and D drive that I could see in windows file explorer. But after I moved some partitions ...
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fdisk output is differ from gparted for my USB Stick
I found a strange partition table on an 32GB usb stick (Hama FlashPen Elatio 32GB).
The fdisk output differ from gparted:
Disk /dev/sdb: 29.3 GiB, 31466323968 bytes, 61457664 sectors
Units: sectors ...
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How to merge different partitions
I have Dell 3567 laptop.
I want to merge sda3 and sda5 partitions. I don't want to keep data on sda5.
I run GParted as bootable but honestly, I’m scared of making mistakes.
Can you help me, please?
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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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No Unallocated Space Visible After Shrinking Partition (GParted)
I know there are a lot of questions concerning resizing partitions with GParted, but none of them seem to address the problem I'm having.
I have two hard drives, one of which is a 2 TB HDD attached ...
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Low disk space on /var
In advance I am sorry if similar question has been answered, but none of those solutions work for me. I am fairly new in using Ubuntu (6-7 months now) and recently whenever I start my laptop a warning ...
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GParted can't resize partition, but unallocated partition is available
I have few partition like this:
And I want to take the unallocated partition and resize it to /dev/sda12.
But when I try to do that:
I can't increase the size.
I have do it in Live Mode, and I have ...
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How to recover after oom-killer invoked during partition resize?
I was running a long-running partition resize with gparted on my "main" (root? but not boot) partition when something happened. The syslog reports that "gpartedbin invoked oom-killer" (which is ...
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How can I delete all the partitions and start afresh?
Owing to bad planning and lack of foresight, I messed up primary/logical partitions on my new 1TB HDD.
I need a dual boot Ubuntu and Windows, and one 100gb unallocated space just sits there in the ...
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Shrink a primary partition
I've got a installation of Ubuntu running on a 3TB disk, during the installation I chose to use all of the available space (I don't remember if I checked LVM).
What I want to do now is shrink the ...
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Extending my Root Paritition
I've Win8/Ubuntu Dual boot. I already have 4 partition so i cannot create a new partition and mount it elsewhere. So, this (How can I increase a partition's size?) question did not help.
Here's a ...
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Resize Boot Partition Next to An Extended Partition
I created 2 partitions:
Boot / Root (Namely /).
Home (/home).
I underestimated the size needed for the Boot / Root and only set it 25GB.
I now need to resize it.
I used LiveCD to run GParted and ...
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bios_grub partition unknown
I have used pc for 7 months without errors. I have a gpt partition table and a Bios. During my installation I made a 2 Mb grub_bios partition. This evening using gparted I noticed that that partition ...
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How can I merge separate non-contiguous partitions?
I want to merge /dev/sda15 with /dev/sda11 so that I can get ~90GB space for Ubuntu, but gparted can't merge these separate partitions directly.
Is there any way I can achieve that?
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Changing partition table format without losing data [duplicate]
Sorry in advance for some extraneous info.
So I just got a new 3TB HDD and used ddrescue to copy files from a failing 2TB HDD to this new one. I knew the partition on my new 3TB HDD would be limited ...
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Red exclamation mark when attempting to resize HDD - gparted
I'm unable to shrink Windows partition using gparted live CD.
The partition filesystem is NTFS. Windows 7 is on it and boots fine.
Gparted information dialog gives the following:
Status - unmounted
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bios_grub partition in the way of resizing Ubuntu partition
I tried to grow the ext4 partition by shrinking sda4 and then adding the unallocated partition to the ext4 partition, where Ubuntu lives.
The selected partition, sda6 (see image), contains the ...
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How to merge two unallocated partitions using GParted?
I am having trouble merging two unallocated partitions (free spaces) using GParted. I need to merge them into one single partition which I can then break into "root" and "home" for my pending Ubuntu ...
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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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Formatting SD card in xubuntu
I just bought a new 8Gb SDHC card, but I am not able to create partitions on it. Not when I am using GParted, nor when I am using mkfs.
When I insert the SD card the following shows up in dmesg:
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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), /dev/...
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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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How can I expand the /boot/efi partition on Ubuntu 20.04?
First, a little background...
I have two NVMe drives installed. The first has Ubuntu 20.04 (my main OS) and the second has Windows 10 (my gaming OS). After installing a couple apps on Windows 10, ...
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Added a new 10TB HDD. Gparted formats only part of it
My OS is Ubuntu 16.04. I have added a new 10TB HDD to my system. I used GParted to format it, but it only formats 1.2TB, leaving the rest unusable. I want to keep the drive unpartitioned (having just ...
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Error when enlarging a LUKS encrypted partition with Gparted
I'm having trouble locating up to date resources for this, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have an Ubuntu VM on Virtualbox, and used the vboxmanage modifyhd command to increase the size ...
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Out of disk space, no Gparted no update
I seem to have worked myself into a perpetual problem.
My Ubuntu version is outdated, and even with some fixes, trying to install Gparted seems impossible (first couldn't find it, now it can but ...
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Install GParted 1.0
What's the easiest way to install this brand new version of GParted?
There is a download link over here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted/gparted-1.0.0/gparted-1.0.0.tar.gz/...
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Resize root partition from home partition space ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I want to resize my root partition using Gparted but before doing it I want to make sure I'm doing it correctly. Here is a screenshot of my GParted:
I know this question has been answered before here:...
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Unable to read files between two distros
I have the following hard disk partition setup:
256 GB SSD
/dev/sda1- FAT 32 -Mounted at /boot/efi
/dev/sda2 - Mounted at Filesystem Root
/dev/sda3 - Mounted at /usr
1 TB HDD
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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Disk Partition Recomendations [duplicate]
I upgraded to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and my disk partition is the following picture.
I want to have partition now. I booted with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS CD. I need help to get proper disk partition without having ...
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