Questions tagged [gparted]
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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Ubuntu Software and apt shows that GParted is installed but I cannot find & run it
The image below shows that GParted is installed but I cannot run it either from terminal or find it in the "Show applications" menu. However I can run parted but I would like it with GUI.
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I need beginner level commands and explanation to run gparted from terminal using the version of ubuntu inDr Webs live disk [closed]
my hard drive is nonfuntional due to sudden power loss while installing windows 11. Black screen, blinking curser. Dr Webs live disk is the only free software i can find that will boot. Trting to run ...
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How to make partition space usable
I have Ubuntu 23.04 on VMware working great. But lately it filled all my disk space. On investigation I found out it is not using my entire allocated space of 128GB. 50% of the space is under unused ...
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How to extend Ubuntu's home partition by taking unallocated space from HDD drive (Dual boot with 1 SSD and 1HDD)
I have Ubuntu 22.04 LTS already installed in my SSD. This SSD also has windows on it. I have around 46gb for the Ubuntu's root partition and 52gb for the home partition.
I want to extend the home ...
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How to fix NTFS formatted hardware
I just recovered from an issue here: 22.04 not mounting NTFS flash drive (not "Fast Boot" issue)
Many of the answers/comments on this website related to the issue I experienced, had to some ...
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extend root partition
I want to extend the /dev/sda5 by 10Gb. For that I followed some blogs but now I have unallocated space created which I am unable to use to extend the /dev/sda5. From the unallocated space I tried to ...
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Installer showing wrong partition sizes
I am trying to install Ubuntu 23.04 on a Macbook Pro 2017 (dual booting with MacOS). For that purpose, I created two partitions called UBUNTU and SWAP.
GParted is showing them with correct sizes. See ...
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Resize linux partition
I need to resize /dev/sda1 partition. When I add free space in proxmox, I cannot resize the partition.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 475M 0 475M 0% /...
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Reinstalling GRUB after moving partitions on drive
I was resizing my Linux (Ubuntu) partition from LiveCD (USB) with gparted, and so I had moved EFI partition too. Now my EFI partition name is dev/sda2, and file system partition name is dev/sda3, they ...
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GParted unable to read contents of FAT32 file system on micro sd card
GParted unable to read contents of FAT32 file system on micro sd card. I have tried it with brand new 128 GB card as well as previously used 16GB card.
I have installed mstools package; dosfstools ...
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Create image from unallocated hdd
I want to create file.img from unallocated hdd to another hdd ( backup the hdd ) to rescue my partitions and files in it .
When I
dd if=/dev/sda of=dev/sdb/file.img
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dd: failed to open '/dev/...
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Why Does a Win10 Drive Cloned with DD or GParted Have GRUB?
I have a desktop computer with Windows 10 installed on its sole internal (NVMe) drive. I boot this machine with Ubuntu 22.04, installed on a USB drive. In Ubuntu, I use GParted to copy partitions from ...
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GParted shows hard drive as two drives of equal storage capacity
I'm trying to format my Xbox One S hard drive with GParted. It appears to show two 900GB disks as /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd instead of one 900GB disk, on top of that.
/dev/sdc :
/dev/sdd :
The first ...
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No disk tool lists my old 4 TB spinning HDD. I can't get in contact with it
I've tried to connect it via an esata cable and via USB. It's not listed with fdisk -l.
How can i mount it?
dmesg | tail -n 100
Doesn't list anything about my large disk.
I have just installed ...
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I get a low space warning on my chromebook install can i utilize or extend my root folder for more space? and how so? i have gparted installed
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I did a full install with a live USB and mrchromebox firmware. I'm not that tech savvy and I know there are very similar questions here and I have read the answers and still need more specific ...
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dd is vastly slower than gparted to copy partitions. How is that possible?
I tried to copy partitions from a 500GB internal M.2 SSD to an external USB3.x enclosure around an M.2 2TB drive.
My first attempt used an A to C cable, and the command:
dd if=/dev/nvme01p3 of=/dev/...
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how to copy a partition to a new drive and make it bigger
I have a 500GB internal M.2 SSD , and bought a 2TB M.2 SSD with a case so I can load it exernally before replacing the internal drive.
The current setup is split into windows and linux partitions.
If ...
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New unallocated space goes back to the partition
I'm trying to free some space after an Ext4 partition. Gparted first resizes the partition and shows unallocated space after the partition but after few seconds,the newly unallocated space goes back ...
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Can't clone nVME ssd drive because it is split into 2 drive paritions?
first of all sorry if I do not explain very well or make any mistakes in my syntax.
I want to clone my ubuntu nVME disk but I am having a problem.
I have ubuntu installed on 1 nVME ssd disk when I ...
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Recreate swap and resize root partition
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS. Below is my current partition table configuration. Initially, I allocated 37GB for the root partition and left the remaining space for the home partition. However, I have ...
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Dumbly shrinked partition size, what can I do to recover my /home folder
I was using a dual-boot setup with Windows and Ubuntu, but I ran out of space. Since I didn't really use Windows, I decided to remove it. I installed GParted and removed the Windows partitions, then ...
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gparted operation failed after almost 10 hours
Finally after being patient for 10 hours, Gparted came back and performed one of two tasks:
It succeeded in resizing a 300 GiB NTFS partition to 270 GiB after moving 270 GiB to the right side.
It ...
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Gparted did not change home partition size as expected
Ubutnu 18.04.16 Server running on a ESXI VM standalone server.
df -Th
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 16G 0 ...
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Ubuntu encryption during installation
For the first time while installing Ubuntu 23.04 I clicked the button for encryption. For bad luck the installation got stuck, so now I have an encrypted Lenovo laptop and I can't decrypt mmcblk0 even ...
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trying to resize system partiton with gparted
I've been searching this one for 2 hours now and I can't find anything I haven't tried ;
I have dualboot Windows and Ubuntu. I messed up setuping Ubuntu (EDIT : not used automatic partitioning, wrong ...
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Unable to make use of all available space as reported by Gparted
I run Ubuntu 22.10 as a VM in VirtualBox (VB) hosted by Windows 10, and since I was running out of storage I decided to extend it.
I increased the size of the virtual disk using The Virtual Media ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 crashed and is now asking for a fresh install when restarted
I’m running Ubuntu 22.04 on a 2008 MBP the SSD is brand new but has crashed after MPV (video player) was repeatedly opened and closed, now every time I restart I’m sent to system configuration and it’...
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I accidentaly deleted sda1 of my ubuntu sda system
Can I restore efi system partition sda1 and if so how?
I tried making my own partition in gparted but it was miskonfigured
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Struggling to create partitions on a SD flash card
I wanted to create partitions on a SD card. I tried to use GParted, KDE Partition Manager and also tried it under Windows using the system's manager but it always fails at creating more than one ...
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Partitioning a USB drive with Gparted - Too many Primary partitions
I have an external USB drive (not bootable) with an ext4 filesystem on it. parted -l says "Partition Table: loop" (full output at end of post).
I want to shrink that partition and add an ...
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Unable to increase /dev/sda6 [duplicate]
I can't figure out how to increase /dev/sda6
If I open gparted I have allocated 50GB. My dev/sda6 is
/dev/sda6 12G 12G 162M 99% /
I have tried to increase it but gparted does not allow me.
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Resized Home Partition with unallocated space now it seem existing data on home doubled in size?
I have a 1 TB drive on a basic computer with Ubuntu only...no dual boot. I originally set up the drive with partitions as follows in this order...
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Boot(100GB) / Swap(50GB) / Home(350GB) /...
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No option to choose Ubuntu - boots into windows
After installing Ubuntu and going through the process after restarting It boots immediately into windows.
I’m currently in the try Ubuntu and this is the gparted that I got right now.
I tried running ...
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Trying to resize my Ubuntu partition (dual boot with Windows) but Gparted gives a scary warning because the unallocated space is to the left?
I am currently dual-booting Windows 10 and Ubuntu 22.04. I wanted more space on the Ubuntu side so I used Windows disk management tool to shrink that partition and that left me with 100+ GB of ...
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GParted partitions written but unable to inform kernel
On Ubuntu 22.04.2. I am attempting to resize the partition containing my /home using free space which exists immediately before/to the left of the current location of the partition. The actual /home ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 root folder claims to have run out of disk space but it is not full
I am running ubuntu 22.04 and gparted claims that my disk is out of space. Gparted claims that the whole drive is full, while sudo du command says on 23GB is being used. I have tried everything to ...
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How do I allocate free disk space to my Ubuntu 22.04 partition? [duplicate]
I have read and tried the mentioned methods of allocating free space to my Ubuntu partition and have been unable to succeed. I have tried both gparted and the Disk Utility application provided with ...
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/dev/sda removal GParted Ubuntu 22.04
As can be seen I reinstalled Ubuntu more than a few times, for various reasons, not all of them being my fault. Using GParted and Gpart I managed to restore my files during my last attempt.
I ...
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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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Can't partition SD card
I have two cards one partitioned in three parts as shown in the photo and another one that isn't. I tried to partition it using the disk utility, but I couldn't. I tried it with GParted and it shows ...
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Resizing an ext4 partition in Ubuntu 18.04 [duplicate]
I have a ext4 partition (as described on the shema) that I want to increase its size, but can I do that when I have the contiguous swap partition in red? GParted doesn't allow me to remove the swap ...
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gparted UI not loading properly
For some reason, gparted isn't running properly on my latest ubuntu VM. anyone encounter this problem?
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Why can't I run a .desktop file copied from Ubuntu/usr/share/application to desktop when I copy or move it to a folder?
GParted runs ok when copied to desktop, but when I copy or move it to a folder a double click results in a text file with entries like "Name(de)=GParted"
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Can't do anything with USB stick Read-only file system
When I plug my USB stick in, I can't open it. Every time I try to do something with it I'm getting a Read-only file system error message. Do you have any idea how to mount and fix it?
GParted:
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Used gparted to resize partitions and now I’m stuck in the black screen on boot
I’ve got a dual boot set up with Windows and Ubuntu on separate partitions. I wanted to give some of the free space on my Windows partition to the Ubuntu one.
I used gparted to make an empty partition ...
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Repartitioning issues
Good evening,
I am a total noob when it comes to linux/ubuntu and I'm a total disaster at it lol
I am trying to repartition my disk using a bootable usb drive.
My disk allocation looks like this (from ...
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how can i add the unallocated space to my linux partition? [duplicate]
I would like to add the unallocated space to my linux partition p5. Cannot resize while mounted in read only. Is it possible to change this while booted to linux on that partition? gparted view linked ...
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my homedisk erased, is this malware or a systemfault?
After trying to save a spreadsheet, LibreOffice was hanging and could not be used anymore. I recently installed 20.045 so I decided to reinstall it. I first made an rsync of my homedirectory which is ...
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Merge two logical partitions (or unallocated space and a logical partition) not next to each other [closed]
The space on my Linux Mint partition ran out, so I resized my shared data partition in order to assign the space to my Linux partition. I resized the whole Linux partition using GParted but it just ...
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Rename external drive Ubuntu 22.04
Feel like I'm probably missing something obvious, but looking to rename an external HDD on Ubuntu 22.04.
I open Disk, select the drive in question, click on the Settings dialog, and then 'Edit ...
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