My desktop has Windows and Ubuntu in dual boot. Overall, I have a 500GB SDD. It turns out I have managed to limit my Ubuntu installation to a tiny 24 GB portion of it. I have only realised this when Ubuntu started warning me that I had run out of space (!).
I was looking at links 1 and 2 on how I can increase my Ubuntu partition. The links suggest installing and running gparted and then resizing. However, when I run gparted, I am confused as to how I can do the resizing. I am attaching a screen shot below:
My questions are:
1) Some links suggest booting from a live CD. Is this necessary or can I do the resizing by simply running Gparted on Ubuntu.?
2) From its size (24 GB) and from it being completely yellow (full), I believe my Linux partition is on /dev/sda5. I can see sda6 right next to it, which is virtually empty. However it is a brown color and its file system is linux-swap. There is an option to 'swapoff'. Am I supposed to do this? When I right click on sda5, I cannot select a new size.
3) There is a further /dev/sda3 partition to the left of these two. It seems completely empty. How can I merge this with /sda4 and /sda5 and allocate all to my Ubuntu setup?
I will be grateful for any pointers.