Question: How to Resize Ubuntu Partition?

How to Resize Partitions with the Ubuntu or GParted Live CD

• Boot either a Ubuntu or GParted Live CD.
• Open GParted.
• Right-click on the partition you wish to shrink.
• Select Resize.
• Shrink or Delete the target partition (make sure you leave at least a couple of GB for an OS to play with, especially Windows, unless you’re deleting it completely).

Of course 14.35 GiB is a bit much so you can also choose to use some to extend your NTFS partition.

• Open GParted.
• Right click on /dev/sda11 and select Swapoff.
• Right click on /dev/sda11 and select Delete.
• Click on Apply All Operations.
• Open a terminal.
• Extend the root partition: sudo resize2fs /dev/sda10.
• Go back to GParted.

use easus partition master (or any other that you prefer) on windows to resize the partition of ubuntu Use tuxboot or unetbootin to create a bootable usb of gparted live. just use any Ubuntu live CD installer and boot into it and select “Try Ubuntu” option.Here’s how to resize an LVM physical volume:

• If the volume group associated with the LVM physical volume does not have enough unallocated space, you’ll need to make some by shrinking a logical volume.
• Burn the latest .iso image from GParted’s website, and burn it on a CD or put it on a USB stick.

You can not resize the partition using GParted while Ubuntu is running. You will need to attach the GParted ISO’s as a CD to the VM machine and reboot the machine so that the GParted will be loaded instead of Ubuntu (I think you can boot from the virtual CD by pressing F12 immediately after machine is started).On the guest machine (Ubuntu)

• Install & start gparted:
• Get rid of the swap partition, which prevents you from expanding the root partition.
• Make a note of the size of the linux-swap partition 4 GB in my case.
• Right click on it and swapoff.
• Right click on it and Delete.

Download ubuntu 14.04 and create a live usb. Boot to a live desktop and run gparted. You will see a window with your your drive displayed as a bar graph with different colors in it. click on them and find the NTFS one.How to Resize Partitions with the Ubuntu or GParted Live CD

• Boot either a Ubuntu or GParted Live CD.
• Open GParted.
• Right-click on the partition you wish to shrink.
• Select Resize.
• Shrink or Delete the target partition (make sure you leave at least a couple of GB for an OS to play with, especially Windows, unless you’re deleting it completely).

Reduce an encrypted partition

• Boot the desktop, live CD.
• Reduce the (root) file system with resize2fs.
• Reduce the (root) (LVM) Logical Volume with lvreduce.
• Reduce the (LVM) Physical Volume with pvresize.
• Reduce the Crypt with cryptsetup.
• Reboot to reduce the Partition storing the crypt with fdisk.

5 Answers

• use p to list the partitions.
• use d to delete first the swap partition ( 2 ) and then the /dev/sda1 partition.
• use n to create a new primary partition.
• use a to toggle the bootable flag on the new /dev/sda1.
• review your changes, make a deep breath and use w to write the new partition table to disk.

How do I change partition size in Ubuntu?

Select the Ubuntu partition that you want to change size, and click Move/Resize Partition option from left action panel.

1. In the resizing interface, drag the partition handle rightwards or leftwards to extend or shrink partition.
2. Next, click Apply to perform the pending operation.

How do I resize a partition after installing Ubuntu?

2 Answers

• You installed Ubuntu on a 500 GB partition.To resize that partition,you need to boot ubuntu live disk.
• After booting ubuntu live disk,open gparted.
• Right-click on the 500 GB partition and then resize it.
• After resizing an unallocated space was created.