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Refers to space on the hard drive that does not yet have a partition in it.

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Cannot add space from deleted Windows partition [duplicate]

I recently found that 50 GB was simply not enough for Ubuntu and deleted the entire Windows partition to assign the space to Ubuntu. I can't resize the Ubuntu partition and it does not go over 50 GB (...
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Problem adding unallocated space to Ubuntu partition

i saw different threads here about increasing partition space but unfortunately i can't manage to resize my disk, neither the key sign that shows that the partition is mounted is present. I created a ...
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Expand Partition To Unallocated Space In Front Of The Partition

I currently have Ubuntu installed on my hdd. However, somehow it sized itself to use only have of my hdd, and created its partition on the tail end of the disk. This leaves the other half unallocated ...
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How to increase the partition size of root disk in ubuntu linux?

I have some 55 Gb unallocated space in my disk and I want to give it to root but I can't resize the root disk. I even tried to do it by bootable live USB but inside Gparted, the root partition doesn't ...
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How do you use "GParted" if you have no unallocated space?

I'm trying to install Windows 10 alongside Ubuntu, and all the guides I've seen so far assume you have unallocated space.
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Installation taking so long

I installed Ubuntu along side my Linux Mint and removed Linux Mint after that. I didn't use my laptop for a while and when I opened it yesterday. It went into the GRUB rescue menu. I have tried the ...
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Can't access unallocated disk space

I had two OSes, I tried to delete Windows and keep the Ubuntu. I tried to delete my Windows partition to have some extra space in my Ubuntu drive. After deleting the partition for the Windows I can't ...
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How to combine unallocated partitons in dual boot

I want to combine both the unallocated space. But I am getting the warning Your system might not boot I am using Windows 10 with ubuntu 20.04 I tried it in windows 10 using AOMEI assistant which was ...
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How to assign disk unallocated space to ubuntu partition using terminal? [duplicate]

I recently installed ubuntu-server on a VM and later on increased the virtual hard disk size from 10Gb to 70Gb. Here is the result of lsblk. user@ubuntuserver:/$ lsblk NAME MAJ:...
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Whether unallocated space created after shrinking Windows 10 partition can be used for Kubuntu installation?

I have a triple boot Linux with Ubuntu and Deepin Linux OS with Windows 10 (preinstalled) in the new Dell Vostro 15 3590 laptop. So I wanted to try with third Linux Kubuntu 20.04. For this, I shrank ...
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Problem in expanding unallocated space available before ubuntu partition. Tried Live USB ubuntu but while resizing

GParted 1.0.0 $ configuration --enable-libparted-dmraid --enable-online-resize libparted 3.3 ======================================== Device: /dev/nvme0n1 Model: HFS512GD9TNG-62A0A Serial: none ...
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How do I increase my sdb4 partition to include allocated space?

The unallocated space is shown here having 22GB and the size I want to increase is that of /dev/sdb4 Please do help :)
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Unable to allocate free space to Ubuntu partition

So I'm kinda new to the Linux OS and I'm using Ubuntu, as it's said by many to be the best option for beginners. As I started using it more and more I stopped using it in a virtual-box and got my ...
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Resize not contiguos partitions

These are my partitions: I would like to resize sda4 by 15Gbi and assign them to sda2. Can I do it? How?
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How to resize my root partition with unallocated space with Home and Swap directory in between [duplicate]

how to merge my root partition with unallocated space with Home and Swap directory in between
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Allocate extra space to / and /home [duplicate]

I want to allocate 20GB for / and remaining unallocated to /home. The problem is I can't move the unallocated space to after / using GParted. My partitions: I'm using Ubuntu 18.04.
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Convert unallocated space to usable on a dual boot system

So I have dual booted my 1 TB hard disk with Windows and Ubuntu. The disk partition looks as following As you can see there is 326 GB of unallocated space that is not usable. It is an MBR disk so I ...
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Allocate unallocated space to ext4 [duplicate]

How to allocate 48gb space you see in this picture to ext4 linux partition? so total i would have 148gb in total please help
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Unallocated Partition

Running GParted I get: Does "unallocated" mean it's available, I can use it? How do I then "allocate" it?
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Gparted will not allow me to unmount partitions [duplicate]

I am having a problem in Gparted. I am running Ubuntu 16.04. I need to expand my main partition, containg "/", into unallocated space. I have used a live DVD with 18.04 to try to use Gparted to expand ...
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how to allocate space from windows to ubuntu? [duplicate]

I had 2 os on my computer Windows and Ubuntu, I wanted to remove windows and did this with OS uninstaller,but all the space from windows left there and I cant move that space to my ubuntu using ...
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Unable to move unallocated space to root partition using gparted

I have checked the other threads but it still doesnt solve my problem. currently, the partition looks like this: where the my main root is /dev/sd5 and the unallocated space is to the right of it . ...
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Can move unallocated space to my linux partition , urgent

That's the condition of my disks seen from live ubuntu cd. On /dev/sd8 my ubuntu os is Installed On /dev/sd1 windows 7 is Installed. And i want to merge the unallocated space on top of /dev/sd7 to ...
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Resize root partition to unallocated space before [duplicate]

I need more space on my root partition running Ubuntu 17 (using Xfce session). I do have a lot of unallocated space BEFORE. However, when I try to resize root partition - /dev/sdb2 , I can't add/...
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Linux partitions showing unallocated after recovering windows 7

This is little long but please bear with me. So I have 3 primary partitions and two logical partition under an extended partition. The first two primary partition sda1 & sda2 are root and home of ...
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Extending root partition into allocated space

I know there are several questions about this topic, but none of them appear to help me. When I first started using Ubuntu, I used Windows Disk Manager to shrink the NTFS partition that came with my ...
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Cannot create a new partition for unallocated space using gparted

I know this question is a duplicate(s), but the possible fix given for other question doesn't really help. Here is view of my drive: What I want is to partition the unallocated space, but am told ...
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Why can't I extend my partition with GParted?

Here is the situation with two pics in live usb. I have lubuntu and bunsenlab in the two ext. bunsen runned in live to extend partitions Error details GParted Details GParted 0.19.0 --enable-...
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Problem when i try to add an unallocated space to a existing partition /dev/sda8 /home [duplicate]

Before writing this post I have try two way to resolve this problem. I attack the screenshot of my gparted which I would add the unallocated space to the /dev/sda8 /home. First way: I used the ...
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I can't access free space on my Ubuntu live USB?

I have 32 GB USB stick and wrote a Ubuntu ISO into it and now i could not get the space remaining in the stick. On booting from USB i am only getting 2 GB. Please help access the free unallocated ...
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boot-repair unallocated a secondary internal drive

Ok I had some boot issues which I managed to solved by reinstalling ubuntu on my primary disk (sda) before reaching to that point I used a program called boot repair (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/...
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Merge two unallocated partition using gparted?

I am having a trouble in merging two unallocated partition. Can anyone help me with this? The problem that I found different is, the unallocated partition seems to be inside the /dev/sda3.
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add this unallocated space to ubuntu partition

I have googled and checked the other solutions in this forum but none seem to work for me. Here is what it looks like now: screenshot and here is the result after running 'sudo parted -ls' : ...
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GParted not opening

I am a newbie in Ubuntu. I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1, dual booted with Windows 8. I have some unallocated space on my hard disk which I want to use in Ubuntu. I heard Gparted is the best tool for ...
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GParted cannot expand root partition [duplicate]

How can I expand root "/" partition by that 4.48GB unallocated partition? I have LiveCD with GParted, but I dont know how to shift that partition.
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How do I take over unallocated space on a flash drive with gparted?

If one have an unallocated space in a flash drive, like this: How does one get rid of it, using Gparted?
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Extend home without unallocated space. With swap or ntfs [duplicate]

I've just installed (some months ago) Ubuntu 14.04 on my Asus laptop. I followed a specific guide on partitions and thought everything was ok. But, beeing pretty new at this I probably made some ...
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How can I merge partitions in Ubuntu 15.04?

I have installed Ubuntu 15.04 and it's my first time I am using Ubuntu. I installed it using 50 GB space first because I had Windows 7 installed previously and thought that i will make it duel boot ...
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All hard disk as Unallocated

I had Win10 installed on my hard disk and I was trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 alongside W10. During the partition creation I did a mistake and now I have all my disk as Unallocated. I can't even go ...
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How do I extend mint root partition using a previous un allocated size? [closed]

I want to extend sda5 using sda8 with out losing any data.
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how to change disk size? unallocated disk

disk details Hello, I wanted to install a D.O.T.A game using steam but I can only install it in /Dev/sda5. I want to either increase the size of the disk or make downloads and use the other disk. i ...
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/boot wont take up the unallocated space!

I have dual boot on my PC, running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 14.04. I wanted to increase the size of /boot so that I can update stuff but apparently boot wont take up the unallocated space directly behind ...
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Can't unmount ext 4 in gparted

I wanted to add extra swap to my pc I followed lots of tutorials but i needed to make a unallocated partition and for that I needed to unmount ext4 I'm totally new in Ubuntu or linux Anybody a ...
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Can't extend root partition even after booting from LiveUSB

After doing some research on how to extend Ubuntu root partition, I tried to extend it using the GParted from a liveUSB session of Ubuntu. But I couldn't extend it. When I right click on my root ...
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Ubuntu terminal re-partitioning to increase the "root" partition size [duplicate]

My root partition size is not enough for me and should be increased in order to allow me adding some new application and services (e.g. mongodb). I got some more free space and I can see it when I ...
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liveCD Doesn't See Unallocated Space In My Hard Disk

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 14.10 on my computer. I have Windows 7 installed and shrunk my main partition to leave a roughly 250 Gb gap (Unallocated). Partitioned as such: Recovery (20 GB) ...
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I set Windows C: drive as active and now my Ubuntu partition has become free space (unallocated)

I was running Windows under dual-boot with Ubuntu 14.04. I accidentally opened Windows native disk manager and set the C: drive as active. It turned my Ubuntu extended partition into free space (...
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Missing drivers after creating unallocated partition for ubuntu

after creating unallocated partition from c drive (first partitioning the drive then deleting it) to be used for ubuntu I encountered an error opening the cd drive in my hp pavillion dv6, repeated ...
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Unallocated space as unused space

I am using Windows 7 with a total of 500 GB hard drive space(distributed equally in the three drives ie. C drive, D drive and E drive and a 100MB system drive). I have nearly 150 GB unallocated space ...
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Can't resize existing partition with gparted

I'm trying to resize my ext4 partition where my ubuntu (elementary os) is installed on. I started a ubuntu live cd and opened gparted, see screenshot There is no way to allocate the free space for ...
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