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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?
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
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.
Distribution: Cinnamon Mint 20.1 (Laptop) and 20.2 (Desktop)
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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.
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. (?)
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.
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.
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.
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