Gparted trouble

Seff · 08-04-2015, 09:52 AM

I was trying to expand my Ubuntu partition but found I could only shrink it. Launching Gparted Live made no difference; I could expand the extended partition containing Ubuntu, but not the Ubuntu section itself. What was I doing wrong?

jailbait · 08-04-2015, 09:55 AM

Welcome to Linuxquestions.

To answer your question could you post a map of your hard drive partitions and explain which partition you are trying to expand?

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Seff · 08-04-2015, 10:03 AM

Sure. What exactly do you mean by 'map'- a screenshot or would a text description suffice?

colorpurple21859 · 08-04-2015, 12:06 PM

Is there empty space after the partition for room to expand? If the partition is at the end of an extended partition, is there room beyond the extended partition to expand the extended partition then the Ubuntu partition

Seff · 08-04-2015, 12:16 PM

I haven't learned how to move partitions yet... No, the free space (1 MiB) is sandwiched between the extended partition and the one I want to expand.

yancek · 08-04-2015, 12:33 PM

Post the output of: sudo fdisk -l(Lower Case Letter L in the command) or an image of GParted showing your drives/partitions.

Seff · 08-04-2015, 12:40 PM

Which program do you recommend for screenshots? Also, is there such a thing as a terminal that one can copy text from?

yancek · 08-04-2015, 04:39 PM

Screenshot should be installed in Ubuntu. To access it and to access a terminal, click on the Dash icon, the Ubuntu logo in the extreme upper left of the Desktop. You will get a search box. Type screenshot and you should see its icon below, click on it to open. Same with terminal.

Soadyheid · 08-04-2015, 07:04 PM

Quote:

I could expand the extended partition containing Ubuntu, but not the Ubuntu section itself.

You could expand the Ubuntu partition but you couldn't, er... extend the Ubuntu partition? That's what I'm reading from this. And no, I don't understand what you mean, can you clarify? Preferably as requested above.

To extend a partition, you need to have free space adjacent to that partition. This may involve shrinking and moving other partitions.

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Seff · 08-04-2015, 07:05 PM

Okay... I think I copied the report from the console, but I can't paste it here.

Just trying to remember the jargon. I think what I mean to say is, I have a logical partition and an extended one. The one I'm trying to expand is the logical partition. (?)

yancek · 08-04-2015, 07:13 PM

You can upload to a site which allows you to put images and then click on the icon above, the insert link icon, Mouse over to find it. There is also an attachment icon above.

Seff · 08-04-2015, 07:19 PM

All right, but knowing how to upload a picture doesn't help me paste text.

This is starting to irk me. I looked under Edit and saw "Copy- Ctrl-Shift-C". I tried it, and still can't paste.

michaelk · 08-04-2015, 07:30 PM

The top of the terminal window should have the typical pull down menus i.e file edit view ... High light the output using the mouse while clicking the left mouse button. The click on edit->copy.

Press the go advance reply button, select the # then ctrl-v to paste the output and you get the below output.

Code:

Your text goes here

Seff · 08-04-2015, 07:54 PM

The extended partition is on sda4 while the other is sda6.

Code:

Disk /dev/loop0: 1 GiB, 1101672448 bytes, 2151704 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk /dev/sda: 298.1 GiB, 320072933376 bytes, 625142448 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0x76d34eb4

Device     Boot     Start       End   Sectors   Size Id Type
/dev/sda1  *         2048   3074047   3072000   1.5G 27 Hidden NTFS WinRE
/dev/sda2         3074048 565911551 562837504 268.4G  7 HPFS/NTFS/exFAT
/dev/sda3       596877312 625141759  28264448  13.5G 17 Hidden HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4       576399358 596877311  20477954   9.8G  5 Extended
/dev/sda5       589590528 596877311   7286784   3.5G 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6       576401408 589588479  13187072   6.3G 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order.

yancek · 08-04-2015, 10:37 PM

Disable the swap partition as explained in detail in the link below:

http://techie-buzz.com/foss/ubuntu-e...partition.html

Then in GParted, right click on sda6 and select the option to umount. You should then be able to extend sda4 to the end of the disk and then do the same with sda6.