I have 50GB of unallocated space that I want to use on my hard drive. I want to turn it into an extended partition so that I can have two logicals contained within it (probably one 10GB and the other 40GB) but when I go to GParted and right click on the space and select "new" the Extended partition option is greyed out and I can not make anything but a primary partition.
Hi,
After finishing a full reinstall where I changed the partioning on my hard drive, I find Gparted not recognising my swap space.
The partition is shown as an unknown file system and is, according to Gparted, not mounted after start-up, however when I want to format it to a linux-swap, Gparted wil fail and return that the partition is busy.
I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 in an VMware ESX environment, and I need to add disk space to the primary / partition. I added the disk space in ESX, and and the Ubuntu VM sees it as unallocated space. When I the live gparted, it sees the new space as well. However, in gparted it only shows the ext4 partition and the swap, but no extended partition.
I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive.
I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this all on an extended partition instead of three primary partitions.
So I want to build Linux From Scratch using some of my unallocated space.
I installed F16 on a dual boot with W7. When I installed it, I shrunk my W7 partition down 100gb and installed F16 on that free space, giving 50gb to root, 40gb to home, and 10gb to the swap partition. Now, I just want to get rid of Windows.
I have windows sda2 and then, next to it, extended partition with ubuntu sda6. Can I reallocate some ubuntu's free space to sda2? I know I can boot from livecd gparted and cut some GB from sda6, but then unallocated space will be after sda6 and not before, am I right? Is it possible to add unallocated space to sda2 or merge is not possible due to partitions position?
I'm running Linux through VirtualBox on Windows 7. When I created the virtual hard drive I only used the default size which is 8 GB. I was able to resize the virtual hard drive to 40 GB but in Linux there's still very little space.
So I got a gparted live CD and booted the virtual machine into gparted to see if I could somehow add or resize the main partition.
First, the phrase "unallocated filesystem" is an oxymoron -- unallocated space is just that: unallocated (unused). You can't put a filesystem in unallocated space.
Well I'm running 2 different distro's of Linux right now and I decided to make my Ubuntu partition my primary partition larger so I took 119.53 GB out of my other distro's partition and it became unallocated and then I figured Gparted would when I right click on it to resize/move give me the option of using it to make another partition bigger but it did not so I went Google searching on line and i
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