Questions tagged [gparted]
GNOME's disk partition editor
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How can I expand a partition to the left in Linux (or any other OS)?
I want to expand my 54 GB partition by 11 GB.
How can I do it? I know copying the data might do the trick, but I want some other solution as there isn't enough space for me to copy the data.
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How can I interrupt a GParted move filesystem operation and recover the data?
I tried to use GParted to shrink a partition. Apparently, this was a huge mistake because it somehow decided shrink and then move. It took an hour to shrink and it estimates it will take 9 hours to ...
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Extend Windows partition using gparted
I use dual boot Ubuntu 20.04 and Windows 10. I want to resize the windows partition (/dev/sda4) by shrink space from Ubuntu partition (/dev/sda1) and add this space to Windows
I boot gparted using USB ...
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How to properly expand /boot FAT partition (for Arch Linux)
This post is actually a continuation of this GParted answer.
I was trying to update/upgrade my Arch dual-boot with Windows, but my /boot partition was too small (100MB). So I expanded it with 1GB via ...
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GParted Maximum /boot Partition Size?
I have an Arch dual boot system with Windows on my desktop PC (not a laptop). It's been while since I've last messed around with it and now I would like to "revive" it. One of the first ...
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Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
Is it possible to hide partitions from windows installation?
In the old days, the 1990s, there was partition magic that had an option to hide partitions.
GParted has an option to hide a partition, but ...
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linux. extend partition space with unallocated space BEFORE it
I have a dual boot (win + ubuntu).
How I can extend the disk space of /dev/nvme0n1p6 (Ubuntu, is a partition of the current OS) with preceding free space?
I tried to do it with GParted but the right ...
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How do I format a Mac SSD drive in Linux Mint 20?
I have a 1 TB SSD drive that was taken from a Mac computer. I would like to use this drive in my Linux Mint 20 system or even in Windows 10. Based on information I found on this forum, I did "...
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Clonezilla cloning to smaller disk
I have an SSD disk with LVM volumes (used for Proxmox) that i want to move to smaller SSD. The original disk is 525 GB large, the new drive has 500 GB. I have shrinked the physical volume and the ...
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Merge two ext4 spaces
I want to merge /dev/nvme0n1p6, which is system linux disk and /dev/nvme0n1p9. I have also Windows system on /dev/nvme0n1p4, so i want to save it
How can i merge /dev/nvme0n1p6 with /dev/nvme0n1p9 ...
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Two EFI partitions, one broken, one fixed; Can replace or salvage the old one with the new one?
I have a Windows system disk that looks like this:
The first EFI partition broke when I tried to get this cloned version to boot. The second EFI partition was created in my attempt to salvage both ...
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Cloning a 2 TB disk with dos label to a 4 TB one with gpt label
Hello everybody out there using Linux,
Cloning disk using dd usually works fine for me, but I ran into troubles when cloning a 2 TB disk to a 4 TB one: the dos label would need to be changed to a gpt ...
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Do partition management tools save you time when you want to merge two adjacent hard drive partitions?
On a mechanical hard drive, I have 4 partitions. I want to merge 2 physically adjacent partitions, each filled with over 200GB of data. Neither is a boot partition.
From what I've researched, the ...
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10TB ex-RAID drives only showing 1.1TiB capacity
I build a new HGST Ultrastar He10 10TB drive into my machine.
I have multible of these, and all show the same capacity (~1TB).
They were previously used in RAID setting where they showed correct sizes ...
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How to increase unallocated space of SD card
I have a SD card used to have Raspbian on it. I am trying to write the lastest Raspbian image to it using Etcher. It is a San Disk Ultra 16GB disk.
Etcher reports this card as having size 32.1MB. ...
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