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How to expand the ext4 primary partition size in a VMware Player virtual disk?

I have a VMware Player virtual machine setup, running Ubuntu 10.04 as the a guest OS. The VM was created on a 20GB virtual drive, with a single partition for working space. Finally I got to the point ...
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Resize ext4 /home partition from start sector

I need to resize my ext4 /home partition to make space to my boot partition before it. The thing is to do so I need to change the start sector of my home partition (the boot partition is extended on ...
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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 ...
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Computer shut down during resizing of drive, stuck!

Basically I was trying to resize my drive since I was low on disk space for the Ubuntu OS using a WUBI of Ubuntu 12.10(I believe that or 12.04). But my computer shut down in the process. Now when I ...
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Ubuntu DualBoot Installation Process - Resizing Partition

I decided to have Ubuntu to dualboot with Win7. I have read couple of guides, and it seems that I still can't get this right. ATM I have my laptop running the Ubuntu CD, I picked in installation type ...
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How do I resize an existing Wubi installation? [duplicate]

I have Windows 7 as my default OS and 500 GB Hard Disk. Following is the partition table of my Hard Disk: I have installed Ubuntu with "install inside windows" option. sda1 is the System ...
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Unable to Merge Win7 Partition with Unallocated Space Released from Xubuntu

Please see the current partitions in Gparted below [edit - I wasn't allowed to post an image, I just posted the output of fdisk -l], I have moved & resized my Xubuntu partition in order to ...
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Ext4 error “something wrong with extent”

After splitting HDD into system and home partitions I get the following error at the very beginning after computer is turned on: error: something wrong with extent Then Ubuntu is loaded and ...
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Recover partition after GParted resizing interrupted by unexpected shutdown

As I was resizing my partitions using GParted, my laptop battery ran out, and the process was interrupted. Now, I am unable to mount the partition which I was trying to resize. I get the following ...
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GParted wont resize extended partitions

I have dual booted windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have decided that I need more space on my Ubuntu partition. I used gparted on a Live CD to shrink my Windows 7 partition (/dev/sda3) but when i ...
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resizing partitions

I have the following configuration: sda1 1 GB maybe fat32 (windows recovery partition) sda2 40 GB ntfs(windows drive c) with boot flag sda3 around 100GB ntfs(storage partition) sda4 extended ...
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Problem with the allocated partition memory

I installed ubuntu 12.04 using wubi on to a 60GB partition. I installed Qt sources, which are a couple of GB in size, but once I start commpiling it started complaining about lack of memory. I ...
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Creating an Ubuntu live USB for use with Gparted

I've install Ubuntu 12.04 on my Windows 7 Dell laptop. Recently I discovered that I'm running out of space on my Ubuntu partition, and I would like to enlarge it. Is it safe to resize partitions ...
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Shrinking file system taking a lot of time,Normal?

I'm using GParted to shrink the partition on my 500 GB external hard drive to a 220 GB partition. It contains about 210 GB of data. I'm shrinking it to convert FAT32 to EXT2. It has been almost an ...
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Gparted partition resize gone wrong - failed to read last sector

I have tried to resize (shrink) my NTFS partition so that I will be able to get more space for my ext4 Ubuntu's (12.04 64 bit) partition but after the partition has been resized I am unable to mount ...
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Create partition for Windows 7 [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How can I install Windows 7 after I've installed Ubuntu? I have a full ubuntu installation on my hard drive. But im in need of windows 7 too now. I found this guide ...
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How can I make my primary partition larger?

Well I'm running 2 different distro's of Linux right now and I decided to make my Ubuntu partition my primary partition larger so I took 119.53 GB out of my other distro's partition and it became ...
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Partition resize [duplicate]

I have a dual boot system with C: drive with windows 227 GB E: drive in windows 185 GB Ext4 Ubuntu - 38 GB Linux swap - 4 GB I want to decrease the space from E: drive from 185 GB to say about ...
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How to resize /dev/root partition?

I have just installed ubuntu desktop on a dedicated remote server but the disk seems to be full even though the server has a 1Tb disk?: desktop@xxxx:/$ sudo df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail ...
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Which side indicates the Ubuntu partition in Automatic partition resizing window in Installation [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: In the installer, when splitting an existing partition, which side is which? I am trying to install Ubuntu 12.04 alongside Windows 7. I get to the "Automatic partition ...
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Unallocated space, how to resize /home partition?

I removed my Windows OS and now I want to resize my /home partition with that unallocated space. The main problem is that the free space is not under my sda4. How to move it there and then resize my ...
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How to resize a /home partition in Kubuntu?

I was distro hopping for awhile in the past few months, so in order to keep all of my files secure, I made a partition of around 50 GB named Files to store all of my files in, and still have them for ...
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How do I change the size of an ext4 partition? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Resize partition with GParted I upgraded the hdd in my FOG server (Ubuntu 11.4) to 500gb but I can't find a simple way to enlarge the partition to take up the empty ...
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Resize root partition from home partition space (swap in the middle)

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: So, my question is: Assuming I launch Ubuntu ...
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Is it safe to resize home and root partition

I'd like to shrink my root partition as it is 20gb and I only use 5-6 gb. I was going to shrink it with gparted and use the free space for my home partition (root and home partitions are sda6 and sda7 ...
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Expanding partition

I have a 220g partition with ubuntu. And a empty partition 100g. How can I expand the partition with ubuntu? I boot from liveCD, start gparted, sgrink 1 partition, and could't expand the 2 partition. ...
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How can I move a btrfs partition? (after resizing it)

Is it possible to move a btrfs partition (after I shrinked it)? (e.g. as described in How can I safely resize (shrink) a BTRFS partition?) I need this to grow the partition before the btrf partition. ...
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Safety of installing Ubuntu alongside Windows

Is it really safe to choose the "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows" option from the Ubuntu installation program? I never used that option, instead I used other tools such as partition magic or windows ...
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Remove Windows Vista Partition So Ubuntu Fills Entire Hard Drive?

I created a partition for Ubuntu so I could dual-boot Windows Vista with it. However, Windows is no longer necessary and I want Ubuntu to take up the entire hard drive. I was wondering how to safely ...
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Increase root partition [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: How do I resize my current ubuntu partition? I have to increase my root partition. Not enough space remining. How can I do that without need to reformate my computer? ...
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How do I resize root partition?

I have a dual boot setup with Ubuntu and Windows 7. I need to shrink my root Ubuntu volume in order to get some free space to create a new partition. Are there any Windows based tools that will do ...
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Resizing partition capacity? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Resize Partition with gparted I have a 500GB hard-drive. Now im using Ubuntu 11.04 with Windows 7 (dual boot). My Ubuntu partition capacity is just 20GB. How can I ...
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how do I resize my home partition (ext4) on runtime? [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: how to resize a ext4 root partition a runtime? I am using ubuntu 11.04. I have installed GParted. I wanted to resize my home folder cuz its low in free space but ...
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Shrink NTFS Windows 7 Partition with GParted [duplicate]

I am running a dual-boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. Initially I allocated about 20GB for my Ubuntu partition; however, I quickly ran out of that space and am now looking to expand my ...
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Resize a pendrive Linux?

I'm running Ubuntu from USB media, which has a drive capacity of 250 GB, all existing as one FAT32 partition. However, when I created the bootable Ubuntu drive, only 4.79 GB were allocated for ...
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How to resize a ext4 root partition at runtime?

How to increase the size of the root partition of a system a runtime? I have a partition that is not allocated after the root partition (which is in ext4), how can I add it to root without having to ...
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Is it safe to resize root partition?

My HDD is partitioned into two equal sized partitions. First is being used for Windows and Second for Ubuntu. Everything is working fine. But now I want to remove Windows and use the disk completely ...
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How do I resize my current ubuntu partition?

I've got Ubuntu 10.10 installed to use my whole hard-disk, but would like to use the 130GB of free space I've got to create a new partition and do some development on Unity and Natty. Can I use ...