Questions tagged [gparted]
GNOME's disk partition editor
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Partition in VirtualBox is 32 GB but GParted shows it's only 20 GB
Goal: increase the size of a partition from 20 GB to 32 GB
I resized the disk using VBoxManage modifyhd ... --resize .... When I type VBoxManage list hdds, I can find the partition I resized and it's ...
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unable to extend parition to unallocated space to the right of it
I need to extend an ex4 partition,
I have 43 GB of free space to the right of the it. I am booted to another drive.
What I tried:
using EaseUS partition master
using MiniTool partition master
using ...
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Any way to make partitioning tools see kpartx-created devices?
I have a dd'ed disk image file with me.
I can use a tool like kpartx to create a device-mapper device from this disk image file.
But partitioning programs like gparted and fdisk don't list my ...
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Linux mint GParted partitioning during installation can't see mount point option
I am trying to install Linux Mint Debian Edition 5 on Acer's laptop. I made a bootable USB stick with the ISO downloaded from the official website.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOHjqllzTy0&t=1s
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Resize linux parition without reinstalling
Here's what my partition table looks like. How can I expand the 20 GB / partition without having to reinstall everything? I'd like it to be, say, 50 GB.
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Cloning my Windows boot drive--Windows hangs on booting off new drive
I copied my Windows XP partition to a new drive using GParted live CD (using the GUI). I made sure to flag it as boot, and then used my XP disc to enter Recovery Console and ran fixboot and fixmbr on ...
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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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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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Can't resize NTFS partition using GParted (ntfsresize)
I wanted to clone an old and slow 2tb HDD (230gb used, everything else is backed up) to a 240gb SSD with Clonezilla. It gave me errors, saying that the disk is to big to clone.
I decided to boot ...
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How to resize system partition in Win 10 on a physical machine when unallocated space is not next to the partition?
I asked a very similar question earlier
Previous question:
I've read some guides about resizing the system partition. But they all seem to require the unallocated space to come directly after the ...
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After partition tool GParted take a screen snapshot, where is the file located?
After partition tool GParted is done with the partitioning, I looked at the details and the further details of each action by clicking on them.
To save it as a record, I took 2 screen snapshots too (...
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Is using Ubuntu 9.04 installation disc to re-partition almost just as good as GParted?
Is using Ubuntu 9.04 installation disc to re-partition almost just as good as GParted? Do you need to some how stop the installation after the re-partition? thanks.
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Can I continue an interrupted partition move?
I forgot to plug a charger to my laptop before starting the parition moving process. The partition I tried to move was 97 GB. It was almost at 80% and then the laptop powered down. Testdisk didn't ...
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Installing "bootable USB" programs (Gparted, Clonezilla, Memtest, etc.) to internal drive partitions - Bad idea?
Is there any reason why it might be a bad idea to take programs that are typically installed as bootable USB drives and instead create an appropriately sized partition for each of them on the internal ...
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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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Can't merge an NTFS partition and two unallocated spaces before and after it (using GParted)
I have 1 NTFS partition among others and two unallocated spaces: one before and one after it. I would like to merge all them together but GParted doesn't allow me to do this ("Resize/Move" ...
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Can Gparted make a jump move of a partition?
There is a similar question: GParted moving partition from beginning of disk to the end of a disk?
I know I can move a partition left / right if there is a free space to the left or to the right of a ...
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How do I give my root partition (/dev/sda9) all the unallocated space?
I'm runing Linux Mint 19 on a Lenovo z70 Laptop. After shrinking my Windows volume so I can give my linux volume more space, I opened Gparted to find it more complicated than I'd thought. I want to ...
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Partition table incorrectly displayed inside partition software tools
I would like to do some work on sdb3 partition:
sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sdb: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1938021 cylinders, total 1953525168 sectors
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Cannot increase file size for .VDI file
I'm trying to increase my .VDI file hard disk.
I'm following instructions from http://www.howtogeek.com/124622/how-to-enlarge-a-virtual-machines-disk-in-virtualbox-or-vmware/ and have come up with an ...
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Resize 5 Tb ext4 empty drive with Gparted takes 40 hs
I have an external 5 Tb drive connected via a USB3 port.
I just formatted it to ext4, so it's completely empty.
I told Gparted to resize it so as to leave some ~100 Gb of unallocated space at the ...
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Win7 cannot sleep because of GRUB [closed]
I have Win7 on an MBR HDD for 6 years now, that was my primary operation system, but I intend to use Linux instead.
At least I am trying out several Linux distros on another HDD, which I set to GPT ...
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Is it possible to recover a NTFS partition after it was formatted to NTFS using Gparted Live CD? [duplicate]
I had a NTFS partition on my ASUS laptop that had Windows 7 on it.
I formatted it using Gparted Live CD because I thought there are some problems in Windows but then found out it was a problem of ...
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GParted - Testing for problems after shrinking too close to the data
I used gparted to shrink a 1TB volume with about 458GB of data to 470GB. I had Ubuntu installed. Apparently it went well at first. I restarted and Ubuntu had problems logging in Unity. It said there's ...
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Cloned Linux does not recognize the new flash drive's space?
I installed CentOS 6 into my 4GB flash drive, and everything worked fine until I needed more space. I have another flash drive with 8GB of space (which is all I really need) and so I formatted it with ...
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Data on unallocated space
Earlier, on a separate question, I was trying to recover data from a lost partition. Specifically, the partition was lost from a Windows 7 NTFS partition, and is now unallocated space. Through ...
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Gparted-If it Were to Crash-copying partition [closed]
I was wondering, if you use gparted to copy a entire partition from one hard drive to another, if the system were to crash, obviously it would for lack of better term, mess up the drive you're copying ...
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Resizing a partition in GParted (or, how can I traverse 5 other partitions prior to expanding /dev/sda6)?
So, the traditionally adopted means of resizing partitions with GParted is to:
Unmount all partitions (so, use a LiveCD)
Right-click -> Extend partition
Engulf selected partition in a flurry of ...
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cant allocate free space to partition ubuntu 12.04
I have 26GB of unlocatted space and I want to add that space to my existing partitions. The problem is that i cant seem to use use that space to resize the partitions.
Here is my partitions list in ...
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Resize main partition with gparted
I'm trying to create a dual-boot machine, having Linux Mint 12 installed already. I have only one partition that occupies the whole hdd space. I want to cut some space from it and create a new ...
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cannot add unallocated space to extended partition using gparted
Okay, I installed Ubuntu a while back and realized I needed more storage space so I shrunk the size of my Windows partition but I am unable to expand the Ubuntu partition. I've read several similar ...
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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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CLI tools commands used by GParted and KDE Partition Manager under the hood
GParted and KDE Partition Manager use libparted for some tasks, but they use other command-line tools under the hood.
I want to reproduce a complex set of operations done with GParted or KDE Partition ...
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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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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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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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Will shrinking a partition destroy all data?
I was trying to shrink 60GB of my partition (463GB) to create another partition with GParted. i want to make sure that no data will be lost first. will i lose any data if i shrink the partition?
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Use gparted to shrink entire disk image?
I have taken an image of a friend's windows disk. I do mean image of the disk, not just the partition that is the C: drive. Consequently the image has about five partitions in it, including at least ...
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partprobe error right after reboot
No partition operations have been performed between power-on and this error message. Any idea why partprobe would say this?
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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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Resize root filesystem in gparted
I'm trying to reisize my root filesystem in gparted, but when I try to drag the partition it won't do anything. if I change the number in the size field, it jumps back to where it was before. I need ...
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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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Is there a Linux CLI tool for determining a partition's "used" space? (like gparted)
I'm shrinking a Linux SDCard partition using AOakley's awesome guide. I'm trying to automate it, but there appears to be no command-line tool for determining the number of bytes in a partition that ...
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What is non-deterministic about remaking bootable USBs?
I have had extremely variable luck with bootable USB sticks, and over time I have become puzzled and wonder what exactly is going on.
In threads such as this one and this one, it seems that I am not ...
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What could cause a freshly formatted ext4 partitions to have wildly different used space?
I have four ext4 partitions on a newly formatted gpt disk. Eventhough I have no files in these partitions a lot of space is used up already.
Highlighted in blue is a partition that has less used ...
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How to merge two ext4 partitions, when there is an unallocated space between them?
I have two ext4 partitions:
/dev/sda6 is the one on which I have my Ubuntu right now,
/dev/sda5 is a recently created empty ext4 partition.
How to merge them so the data will not be lost?
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GParted and Disk Utility disagree on the partition layout - but Disk Utility is inconsistent
I'm trying to make a storage partition on my bootable Linux flash drive. It's using GPT and booting with EFI.
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