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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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Can I decrypt an encrypted USB-HDD using a USB enclosure case, other than the one used for encrypting?

I encrypted an external USB-HDD and it works like a charm, I can decrypt using the password when manually mounting or even automatically decrypt with using the proper settings to do so with using the ...
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I want to expand my root (/) partition on Ubuntu 20.04

The directory is 100% full. Is there any way to do this without using a bootable USB drive? As you can see from the above image of GParted the drive does have some free unallocated space. or ...
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boot-repair NVMe drive after gparted copy

I'm trying to migrate to my new NVMe Samsung 950 pro. chroot /mnt/boot-sav/nvme0n1p3 update-grub grub-probe: error: cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sda1. Check your device.map. Process: Copied/...
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Moving a partition to the end of disk using gparted

I'm planning to use gparted to move a(the?) OEM partition created by win 10 to the end of the disk. The disk looks like: Can the OEM partition be safely moved to the end of the disk? I tried it ...
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How to merge a partition to my main file system [duplicate]

This is my gparted window: How can I add Partition-2 (the selected row) to my main file system?
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VB Ubuntu says disk full but not

I am running Ubuntu 22.04 via VirtualBox from win11. Recently I had to extend the space allocated for the machine. I did that using gparted util. It was fine for a while but now I am getting warnings ...
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Removing Windows and redundant partitions and increasing Ubuntu partition size

I have a dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu system, however, I want to remove the Windows partition since I do not use it. I previously had dual boot and I unfortunately broke it and had to start again with ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 Live did not find my RAID0

I configured RAID0 on my machine with Auros Z390 mainboard: and was able to use it on Windows 10: I am not sure if it is really possible, but at least I thought that I probably copy my old SATA SSD ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 I cannot resize the system partition

I have a filesystem partition where the Ubuntu SO is installed and another one with 393Gb free space, how can I resize the filesystem partition and use the free space? What I did... I started Ubuntu ...
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Cannot resize my disk space in Ubuntu 23.10

I have recently moved to a new system and installed Ubuntu 23.10 as dual boot with Windows. I have copied all my files which were around 15GB and set up all the applications and software that were ...
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Gparted shows Linux filled less than it actually is. How to fix it?

I've had Ubuntu System with the size of 100 GiB. I've made some manipulations for repairing the system and, as a result, my Linux cannot boot, and GParted shows there are only 1 GiB filled on the ...
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Permissions do not allow pasting files in this directory

I'm using Tower PC with 500GB SSD & 1 TB HDD, installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the SSD, The 1TB HDD I'm not able to use, while copy paste a file from SSD to HDD it says "Permissions do not allow ...
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How to safely decrease size of Linux partition?

I've had 100 GiB of Linux partition in the right place of disk. I've recently increased the size of my Linux partition from 100 GiB to 150 GiB by moving all bytes to the 50GiB left. (don't focus ...
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How to delete unknown partitions

Several months ago, I installed Ubuntu 16.04 but wrecked my grub due to using a 3rd-party boot menu editor. I had to reinstall Windows and Ubuntu. Now sdb5 and sdb6 are unknown partitions. I tried ...
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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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How to fix "Partition does not start on physical sector boundary" warning?

I have one HDD on my laptop, with two partitions (one ext3 with Ubuntu 12.04 installed and one swap). fdisk is giving me the following warning: Partition 1 does not start on physical sector boundary ...
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how do you expand the boot partition of a standard 14.04 install

I have read several solutions to this problem but they did not address a non dual boot standard 14.04 install. Below is the structure of my disk. I tried to paste a picture of gparted but apparently ...
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SDcard not showing full size in gparted

So I was trying to put an embedded linux image inside an SDcard (32gb) and used the famous 'dd' command... Apparently it failed because now I cant format the disk anymore, in my Disks utility i get ...
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Can't format sd card

Yesterday I found an old micro SD card laying in my drawer and decided to check what's in it using an adapter. The card contained some non-important files and I deleted them. I took it out and put it ...
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How to unmount read-only file system and resize it. Ubuntu 22.04

I need to resize /dev/nvme0n1p1 partition because it takes almost all memory from my SSD. And also I couldn't make dual boot for Windows as second OS, so I need help. I've tried this commands to ...
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Did i lose my ubuntu? I have no idea what actually happend to all its data

So, I decided to try out ubuntu on a dual boot with windows. The way I did everything was: I shrunk my OS drive in windows disk manager, then using live boot Ubuntu and gparted I made 3 partitions for ...
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Disk '/dev/sdb' doesn't contain a valid partition table

I have installed Ubuntu on the USB stick and afterwards tried to clean up the disc to install another version of Ubuntu. I was not able to do it (even when tried to delete files by using sudo -rm), ...
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Best way to recover a partition from my HDD that I lost when my computer shut down while I was expanding the partition from 800GB to 1TB?

I had two partitions, and I deleted the first partition (NTFS) to expand the second and keep only one partition (EXT4). However, while performing this operation in GParted, my computer shut down, and ...
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Why do Files and Disks applications show different values for free space?

I encountered an issue with my Ubuntu partition's storage. Almost every disk checking app seem to show that its free space is around 29 GB, while Files and any other app shows that its free space is ...
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Cannot move swap space

This has been asked here, Why I'm seeing a lock besides the partition I'm trying to modify with gparted?, but I'm having problems. These two partitions both have ext4 as their file system. ...
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merge unallocated/free space sections

My system currently has Win11 + Ubuntu 22.04LTS installed, and they dual boot with no problem. They are both installed to the same SSD. I do have a 2nd SSD, but it is only for data storage. I am ...
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How do I format or partition a read-only USB drive?

Whenever I try formatting my Sandisk Cruzer Glide 16GB, I get this error message on Gparted. GParted 0.11.0 --enable-libparted-dmraid Libparted 2.3 Create Primary Partition #1 (ntfs, 14.42 GiB) on ...
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Cloning Ubuntu with gparted. Both partitions are root?

I wanted to make a backup of Ubuntu. I only have ubuntu on the machine. I did the following. I got a live usb and booted. Then I used gparted to copy my Ubuntu to another ext4 partition that I have. ...
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Parted input/output error while making a new GPT table

I have damaged usb drive. Tried making a new table with GParted, not finishing the operation. also tried with parted, it's printing input/output error while making GPT table. scanned with badblocks ...
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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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Warning: Moving a partition might cause your operating system to fail to boot

16.04 is installed alongside Windows. I will free space for 16.04 by shrinking the Windows partition. I understand that it is necessary to boot from a CD \ USB and use a tool like partimage to ...
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Cleared and Unformatted partitions in GParted

I was formatting my drive and found a partition system named cleared and unformatted. What are those partitions and why they are in GParted app ?
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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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Permission denied while creating file or directory on /dev/sda1 in ext4 filesystem

I am not able to create a file or directory, it says permission denied. I am trying this in /dev/sda1. Here is the image from GParted & file manager : !
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Recovering a corrupt LVM partition

I seem to have corrupted my primary LVM partition [1] which contains root and swap partitions. $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Disk /dev/sdb: 223.6 GiB, 240057409536 bytes, 468862128 sectors Units: sectors ...
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Shrinking logical volume on partition to copy VirtualBox VM to new .vdi file

I've created an Ubuntu 22.04 virtual box VM on a Windows 10 host machine. I've allocated 600GB virtual memory size for a dynamically expanding disk in virtual box. When I created this VM I had thought ...
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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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Merge Unallocated space with Ubuntu, which is before the root partition, and the root partition is an extended partition

i modified this PC to dual boot windows and Ubuntu but windows didn't boot anymore. so how can i merge the free space 776GB to the file system Partition 6 181 gb ext 4 where the Ubuntu OS is, without ...
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Merging unallocated space to existing partition

Recently was trying to remove Ubuntu from a dual-boot Mac I had, wound up deleting the Ubuntu partition but now the 500GB used for it are just unallocated space according to GParted. I'm running ...
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I want to extend my root partition using 2 unallocated partitions but one it to the left and other is to the right. How do i do it.?

I want to extend my root partition, using 2 unallocated partitions, but one if present to the left of the root, and another if present in the right. The sequence is : Unall | ROOT | Linux-Swap | Linux-...
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Guest system does not see the updated disk size in VirtualBox

In the last time on every start of my Ubuntu 14.04 VM I'm getting the message Low Disk Space This computer has only 314.8 MB disk space remaining. You may free up some space by emptying the trash. ...
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extend/resize ubuntu partition in dual boot system without external usb/cd drive

I am using a dual boot system(ubuntu22.04+windows11). I wanted to extend the Ubuntu partition size.So first I created some unallocated memory from the ubuntu partition. Now I want to add this ...
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Recovering Ubuntu 22 boot partition with GParted or USB stick

Recently I have formatted a Windows 10 computer to Ubuntu 22, installing from a USB stick. This computer has two storaged disks (a 2 TB HDD and a 256 GB SSD) and I installed Ubuntu on the SSD, ...
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gparted label file system greyed out

I bought a new SSD hard drive recently to use as a backup, and when I mount it to my machine it shows up mounted at /media/[USER]/Extreme SSD/ <-- yes, that's a space there. I hate having spaces ...
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Partitions 3 on /dev/sda have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change

So i recently tried to install pheonix os along side Windows 10 and it basically destroyed my partitions for good. So i tried to install Ubuntu and just wipe my drive completely using gparted. I then ...
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apt install gparted failed and it shows dpkg: error

i am about to install gparted and use the command: sudo apt-get install gparted but what i got is : root@ubuntu:~# sudo apt-get install gparted Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree ...
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Cannot mount Windows partition in Ubuntu

I have a dual-boot (Win10-Ubuntu 18) for more than 6 months and everything went fine. Today I decided to give more space to my Ubuntu system (35GB -> 80GB). I resized my Windows partition and used ...
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How to resize a ZFS partition in Ubuntu

How do I resize/shrink a ZFS partition in Ubuntu using gparted? As gparted doesn't support ZFS file system to shrink, so how do I do it?
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/dev/sda file is not showing in bootloader installation

In this image while installation of Ubuntu it's not showing the /dev/sda option which is my actual hard disk and where I have unallocated memory for Ubuntu. In this image I tried GParted in Ubuntu ...
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Is there a way to predict how long GParted will take to resize a partition?

I am constantly running out of space in my root (/) partition, which often makes it impossible to update packages and so I need to change it. Here is my current partitions (sorry, no way to un-...

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