Hi all,

I've a problem with a computer that runs with kubuntu 14.04, the question is it has a 2 terabytes system disk, whose installation came from a 120gb SSD via cloning with clonezilla and resizing partitions automatically (I told this because perhaps can be important, perhaps not).



/dev/sda1 has 1,76 TiB, but it says that 1,65 TiB are unassigned, so I can't use the space. I have try to resize partition but gparted doesn't allow me to.

As you can see on picture, if I go to properties of partition it shows a warning message saying something like:

"Warning: 1.65 TiB of unassigned space on partition, to make filesystem grow in order to fill the partition, select partition and choose "Partition --> Check" from the menu"

I'm unable to, since this option doesn't appears.

My question is: How can I repair it so I can use all the space? If possible, I want to do it from the kubuntu installation, since I'm not phisically on the computer and only can connect remotely.

Many thanks in advance

It should just be a matter of running (as root) "resize2fs /dev/sda1" to expand the filesystem to fill the partition. Online expansion is supported, so you can do that while the system is running. Resizing (online or offline) does depend on the filesystem having been created with the "resize_inode" option, but that has been the default for quite some time (always, for ext4).

Many thanks for your answer, rknichols

You think that doing this I could use all this lost space? keep in mind that after this partition, in the same disk, there is the swap partition, wouldn't it be affected?

Many thanks again

It won't affect the swap partition. The filesystem will just be extended to use the entire 1.76 TiB sda1 partition instead of just the 108.1 GiB (89.64GiB + 18.46GiB) it is now. If you would prefer to create one or more separate partitions to make use of the currently unassigned space, that can be done too if you would say what your plans are, but that is going to be hard to do online.