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Gparted doesn't allow adding free space to partition at end of table
I've dual booted my Ubuntu 22.04 system with a Windows 10. I alloted 100GB initially, but that turned out to be just slightly less than I thought I needed. Now I'm trying to increase the size of my ...
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ext4 cannot delete files after resizing partitions using gparted offline
Recently I tried to install a package and got a message saying I didn't have enough space. I guess 25 Gb isn't enough. I downloaded a GParted iso, tossed onto a thumb drive, etc, etc. Everything went ...
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How to fix Ubuntu 22.04 UEFI boot GPT issues after simple dd clone to larger disk
I have a healthy Ubuntu 22.04 LTS installation on a 1TB SSD
It's a simple disk-- not using LVM, just two partitions: the 512 MiB EFI System Partition and the rest is one big ext4 partition for the OS ...
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Ubuntu server Full Space used but not
I use Ubuntu Server, I have a problem, when I start my ubuntu server it shows me that I am using the entire partition allocated to ubuntu,
which means that I can no longer install any package or any ...
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Extending Ubuntu system partition by space before it
Sorry, there was similar question before, but still can not find satisfactory answer.
Is there any ways to extend Ubuntu partition with the free space before it without deleting and recreating ...
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Action plan for "merging" partitions on Linux only box without data loss
My Ubuntu LTS box is partitioned as shown in this GParted screenshot. There are separate ext4 partitions for root, usr, home, and a couple of ntfs data partitions (for Windows/Mac VM disk images). /, /...
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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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Merge unallocated partition into my mounted partition
As you can see, I am mounted on /dev/nvme0n1p5. Gparted does not allow me to merge the unallocated partition (51.94GB) into the extended partition (i.e. mounted partition) using Move/Resize action. I ...
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Having some issues trying to unmount the home partition and resize/split it
So i'm new to linux and I set up my drive poorly....basically too small of a root partition and too large of a home partition and I want to have a Mysql and Nginx partition as well for that data.
I've ...
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Fix and format USB stick "No media found"
My USB was corrupted when I tried to format it on windows to put a bootable Ubuntu on it.
I tried to format it on Windows it failed. I tried on Ubuntu with disk utility but it failed, so I tried with ...
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Unable to enlarge linux partion size on gparted
I've been trying to enlarge the linux partition of my system. Following online sources, I got some unallocated memory from the windows side, and then, moving to the ubuntu side, I installed gparted. ...
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Should I remove swap file before shrinking partition? (Ubuntu)
I have a laptop which dual boots Windows 10 and Ubuntu 20.04. I have realized that I gave the Windows partition too little space when I installed Ubuntu so I want to shrink the Ubuntu partition (p4) ...
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Unable to use linux unallocated space
I had a windows-Linux dual boot on my PC and decided to get rid of windows because most of my work has been down on the Linux partition. I've deleted windows but for some reason can't add the ...
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ubuntu/linux hardrive clone with dd issue with partitions and allocated side
I have a 500gb hardrive (sda) with 2 allocated partition (sda1 and sda2 which is the linux swap) (see image).
I want to copy the data of 500gb hardrive to a 2tb hardrive named sdb. So I did
dd if=/dev/...
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How to move unallocated space from left to the right of an ext4 partition in gparted without extended partition
Hello,
I just reduced my windows partition space on /dev/nvme0n1p3 to the unallocated 60.65Go space on its right. I'm trying to allocate this space to my kde plasma partition on /dev/nvmee0n1p4 in ...
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