GParted is a free partition editor for graphically managing your disk partitions
2
votes
1answer
53 views
Toshiba Satellite ubuntu wants to use entire disk
Trying to install Ubuntu on a new Toshiba Satellite Pro C850. When trying to install 12.04.2 but it wants to over write the entire disk . . . ditching Windows 8 completely. Is the only way to dual ...
2
votes
1answer
367 views
Trying to move/merge ext4 partitions with win7 partition intact
So I am using a bootable usb with 12.04 on it to run gparted. What I would like to do is keep the win7 partition and merge/redo the other partitions for ubuntu use. I am not quite sure what the best ...
1
vote
1answer
90 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
170 views
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 ...
1
vote
1answer
905 views
(11.10) Install Windows on Logical/Extended Partition — Dual-Boot
I have 3 Primary/Basic partitions:
sda1. Ubuntu 11.10 root drive (40G)
sda2. FreeBSD root (20G)
sda3. Windows XP root drive(4G)
I have a Logical/Extended Partition sda4 of 234GB, divided into 5 disks ...
0
votes
1answer
21 views
Screwed up partitions
I'm using an iMac
Using ubuntu, I made a bootable gparted usb (via unetbootin) to partition my hard drive. I reduced the size of my ubuntu partition and added two hfs+ primary partitions.
Now, even ...
0
votes
1answer
21 views
resize non-adjacent partitions?
I have a dual boot with three main partitions, one each for Ubuntu, Windows, and my files. I want to make the one with Windows ("OS") a bit larger, which would have to be at the expense of the one ...
0
votes
1answer
36 views
Repartition HDD to give Ubuntu more space
My Laptop came installed with Windows 7 and 320 GB of hard drive space. A few weeks ago I decided to try Ubuntu for a change, and created a 30GB partition for it.
Now, I want to give more space for ...
0
votes
1answer
47 views
Unable to Extend Ubuntu Partition Size
I'm trying to increase the size of my Ubuntu partition.
My partitions, overall, are sort of a mess. I don't know what the System Reserved /sda1 partition is, but I figure that's something to do with ...
0
votes
1answer
250 views
How to resize Ubuntu partition with unallocated space w/GParted & LiveCD
I currently have one hard drive with 3 partitions and 2 partitions of unallocated space. I am dual booting Windows 7 (1 partition) and another partition for Ubuntu 12.04.
I'm using Gparted and ...
0
votes
1answer
130 views
How to extend Ubuntu partation size?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.10 64BIT under my laptop, Asus K53E-B. Its hard disk drive volume 640GB.
I have 3 operation systems: Windows 7, Windows 8 (I just wanted try it), and Ubuntu 12.10.
I don't know ...
0
votes
1answer
119 views
Will converting my first partition to EXT4 make me lose boot info?
I recently switched from Windows to Lubuntu as my sole OS.
My filesystem now has a NTFS partition with all my data (which I now would like to convert to EXT4), a EXT4 partition with Lubuntu on it and ...
2
votes
0answers
176 views
Remove lvm to install Ubuntu
I am trying to install Ubuntu. However I have an lvm on the drive I want to install Ubuntu on.
Gparted cannot remove the lvm which is /dev/sda6.
How can I remove the lvm to instal lvm over it?
2
votes
0answers
32 views
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 ...
2
votes
0answers
276 views
Gparted Partition editor not working
I had Windows and installed Ubuntu 12.10 alongside Windows.
I want to allocate suitable disk space to Ubuntu. I installed the Gparted Parition Editor from the Software Center.
My problem is: It ...
2
votes
0answers
376 views
Can't have overlapping partitions
I have a machine running ubuntu 12.04 and windows 8 on dual boot. I created a ntfs partition to do easy switching but as there were only 4 partition possible, I unknowingly deleted system reserved ...
2
votes
0answers
2k views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
118 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
58 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
35 views
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 ...
1
vote
0answers
182 views
Formatting HDD and USB-stick results in broken “unknown” file system
I am trying to format a new hard disk (and a USB-stick) using GParted. After successfully formatting the drive (to ext2, ext4, ntfs, fat16, whatever), GParted tries to reload the partition data and ...
1
vote
0answers
206 views
Difficulty mounting Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit) on new HDD
To the gentle membership of the Ubuntu Linux Forum:
After my laptop passed away a few weeks ago, I made up my mind to build n open source system. So I put together a computer for this purpose. I have ...
1
vote
0answers
141 views
Filesystem locks up (read-only) after HDD -> SSD clone, no sudo access, no applications
I recently cloned my old HDD to a new smaller SSD and something must have gone wrong. Windows 7 works absolutely fine, but Ubuntu 12.04 has issues - at first, it works normally, but after only a ...
1
vote
0answers
315 views
Google Chrome causing file system to mount as read only
So disclaimer, I am using Lubuntu 12.04 but I'm almost certain it shouldn't make any difference.
Earlier this week I resized my lubuntu partition on my harddrive with GParted to be 25 GBs smaller, ...
0
votes
0answers
38 views
Windows/Ubuntu dual boot error
I am new to Ubuntu, so I don't know much about it. I had installed Windows 8 on Legacy boot mode a while back as I had heard of problems with UEFI.
Now, when I try installing Ubuntu 13.04, it doesn't ...
0
votes
0answers
31 views
Low graphics mode- problem created by gparted
I am a relatively new Ubuntu user , I have an Acer laptop and I recently upgraded to 12.04 Ubuntu from 10.04 . I decided to make a partition for installing Windows 7 and I used Gparted Live CD.
It ...
0
votes
0answers
349 views
Why does my USB hdd returns SG_IO: bad/missing sense data?
I am able to boot and run commands from external USB hdd.
/dev/sdb:
Timing cached reads: 1018 MB in 2.00 seconds = 508.97 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 80 MB in 3.03 seconds = 26.37 ...
0
votes
0answers
108 views
Ext4 Partition won't automount
(ubuntu 12.10 on HP DV7 i5 with 8GB memory)
Yesterday I decided to delete my 522GB Win7 (NTFS) partition, and create my Ext4, since my exposure to my Win8 on another laptop had made me a 100% Ubuntu ...
0
votes
0answers
36 views
Installing Ubuntu from GParted
I have a BSOD related to a registry error that I can't fix. My overall hdd is healthy, but I don't have restore discs. I'm tired of messing with Windows - I've been reading up on Ubuntu and want to ...
0
votes
0answers
201 views
Messed up SuperBlock/Journal SDCARD
I had recently partitioned my SDCARD to work with my phone. Added an EXT4 and FAT32 partitions. After a power failure the data got corrupted. I can still see it but it's not the same as before. I've ...
0
votes
0answers
53 views
Just added a terabyte external hard drive (HD Mybook), but can't format it
I just added an external drive, a WD Mybook, but I can only open mount/unmount the drive. I was trying to use gparted to format it to windows. But it is taking several hours just to launch. All I ...
0
votes
0answers
147 views
ubuntu 12.10 boots into busybox, gparted unsuccessful
a few days ago my dual booted win7/ubuntu 12.10 machine booted into busybox. I googled around and determined the problem was due either to a partion problem, or a bad HD.
I found this answer that ...
0
votes
0answers
78 views
How to use Gparted on empty external drive
I would like to install Ubuntu onto my external hard drive. It is now empty (I guess). I ran my laptop from LiveUSB and I ran GParted to create root, swap and home section on my disk but the problem ...
0
votes
0answers
32 views
Cannot remount a partition /
I recently installed linux alongside Windows 7, and before I knew the consequences, I unmounted the free space partition of my 320 GB hard drive, in the hopes of resizing the free space to make more ...
0
votes
0answers
63 views
Changed flash drive's mount point, now I can't mount anything
I used GParted to change my flash drive's label to AdamDrive, so that it mounted to /media/adam/ADAMDRIVE instead of /media/adam/980B-F3AC. I re-mounted it and it worked fine. Then I unplugged it, ...
0
votes
0answers
109 views
How to use GParted to resize Ubuntu 12.04 LTS? Confused which is what!
I use Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and I have downloaded GParted to resize my partition space.
Now, quite simply, I have stopped using WinXP, and I want to shrink that space and increase the space of Ubuntu.
I ...
0
votes
0answers
64 views
Nautilus doesn't see free space but GParted does
I've recently moved my system partition in order to install some Windows and now Nautilus reports 0 free space at /home partition (and the total size seems to be incorrect as well)
but there are 17 ...
0
votes
0answers
80 views
Daemon is inhibited
i'm having 2047 badblocks in my HDD, and to remove them i'v to make all hdd as ext3 drive and currently my whole hdd is unallocated(free space)...but while creating ext3 partition using Disk utility, ...
0
votes
0answers
91 views
How do I resolve short read problems with my filesystem?
I want to shrink partition from this:
To this:
As you see, I booted from Live CD and used GParted. When I apply the changes, it works some time and then fail with message:
resize2fs: Attempt to ...
0
votes
0answers
63 views
Cannot change partition using live CD and GParted
I want to install on an old Fuijitsu Laptop Ubuntu side by side with windows, but when trying to install it doesnt show me the option to install side by side. When using GPARTED in a live session the ...
0
votes
0answers
92 views
Wrong partitions in one USB HDD enclosure, good in another
1) My old HDD (in USB3 enclosure) is on the verge of failing so I bought a new one (almost exactly the same 1TB WD) with a separate enclosure (they only had USB2, so it's USB2, slow).
2) I partitioned ...
0
votes
0answers
418 views
How do I install Ubuntu on a separate Partition on a PC running Windows 8 on another Partition?
I have an Alienware M14x R2 with W8 64-bit running on it. I had created a separated partition (150GB) and Linux-swap (1GB) using GParted, before I installed W8. Now I want to install Ubuntu 12.10 on ...
0
votes
0answers
30 views
pull some .rar files from my windows partition, then remove the partition
I just started using Ubuntu, and want to retrieve some files off my windows partition. I don't think I'm "dual booting" so the other answers before don't really work I think. My windows partition was ...
0
votes
0answers
292 views
NTFS partions not showing in Ubuntu but seen in Windows
I have two other NTFS file system partitions on my disk besides the drive C.
I want to enlarge D: getting the space from C:. GParted shows an error and could enlarge it but maintained the free ...
0
votes
0answers
211 views
GParted fails to shrink and move parition
I'm trying to use gparted to shrink and move one of my partitions. The error page that gparted generates on failure is below. I'm not sure what the problem is here or how to resolve it. Any help will ...
0
votes
0answers
162 views
recover accidentally lost partition using gparted
I accidentally deleted an extended partition in gparted. I was expanding the partition by shrinking its previous partition and expanding it. However, on expanding, it took a lot of time, during which ...
0
votes
0answers
204 views
After hard drive partitioning the encrypted swap is/was? not working
system is Ubuntu 12.04 x64
Linux UserPC 3.2.0-29-generic #46-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jul 27 17:03:23 UTC 2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
I had to do modifications to the partitioning of Windows, in short I ...
0
votes
0answers
1k views
Lubuntu boot CD fails install to hard drive, will not format, daemon inhibited
I am encountering an error similar to that described in this question.
In my case, I am trying to install Lubuntu on an old IBM using a just-burned install disk (version 12.04). Long story, but I ...
0
votes
0answers
138 views
Resizing partitions on a cloned hard drive
Hi I cloned my hard drive to a larger one using clonezilla and now wish to increase the partition sizes using the unallocated space. I'm trying to do this using Gparted whist running ubuntu off the ...
0
votes
0answers
451 views
MBR Repair, any help is welcome
Alright if you look at my previous questions you can see just what went wrong and where.
Anyways here it is, after a day of working at my external 500 gig goflex that I could not even create a new ...
