Ubuntu :: Expand Partition To The Left "Quickly?"
Oct 17, 2010
I would like to expand my root partition to the left. I already moved my 100MB /boot partition overand that took like 12 hours with Gparted, so no way do I want to use it for my 60GB partition to gain another 2GB. Is there a faster way? (Besides wiping the partition, creating the new larger one and reinstalling Ubuntu? )
I've heard LVM might be good, but it sounds like I have to do that from scratch as well, and I'd rather not lose all my stuff and start over, I just want to clean up my messy partitioning.
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May 29, 2009
I have a hd5 (?) of 10 GB for the system OS. I had used about 7 GB and believed that adding software from a NIC would not greatly exceed space on this drive but was wrong - it now has about 40KB remaining. The system has a 2GB swap drive elsewhere on the SUSE 10.1 Enterprise desktop system, 127GB HD total. The total HD has about 63 GB of "unused" space - in the hd6(?).
I could not expand the hd5 partition using the on-board partition software and did not know how to handle it so rebooted. Now the system will not start since there is not enough space. My questions: 1) How can I/can I us the on-board partition expansion SAFELY to expand the 10GB to 20GB from a scripting bootup or similar? 2) I have GNU-parted but could not install it on the Linux before rebooting - not enough space. Can it/should it be expanded on a floppy drive or similar and be used to expand the hd5 partition? I do not have another Linux machine. How can I get out of this fix?such as creating another partition, 20 GB as hd7, moving all hd5 info. into it (by script since I cannot boot up?), then deleting the orignial hd5, and renaming the new partition hd5?
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Aug 14, 2011
I have been using Natty (11.04) for a while with a 3disk RAID5 via MDADM and all have been ok.I have just stuck in another disk using: mdadm /dev/md0 --add /dev/sdb, then mdadm --grow /dev/md --raid-devices=4I then resize2fs /dev/md0all seemed ok until i tried "tail -f /var/log/syslog" and was given:tail: cannot watch `/var/log/syslog': No space left on devicedf -h gives me loads of space freedf -i no problemsany i have an expensive lump parts just sitting here doing nothing.
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Apr 27, 2010
I need to expand my ntfs and have ample GB, all taken up presently so if I create some unallocated GB's under ntfs how do I expand the ntfs partition. I have gparted live CD.
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Aug 29, 2011
When partitioning disk devices for F14 on my new x86-64 box, I allocated 100G for / mounted on /dev/sda1. It's now 100% full. I have 365G free space available on the disk. Can I somehow extend /dev/sda1 to use some of this free space?
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Jul 20, 2010
How to expand a partition size for which it was fixed.
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Jul 13, 2010
i installed ubuntu 10.04 with wubi on Windows 7. It works perfectly. And, i've only installed 5GB rather that 20GB in my partition (from the wubi option at the first time). I made this partition only for ubuntu but silly me i've installed only 5GB rather than to chose 20GB Now the ubuntu is low on disk space! it' only 120MB left from 5GB. My question is, is there any way expand it to 20GB so the partition is fully for home folder, etc? I want my 15GB!
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Nov 20, 2010
I clean installed Ubuntu 10.10 by shrinking my Windows 7 partition slightly. Now that I want to expand my Linux partition, I shrunk my Win 7 partition from Windows OS. From Ubuntu, the partition manager shows /dev/sda1 contains the Win 7 and unallocated partition. /dev/sda2 contains the Linux and swap partitions. I can't seem to expand my Linux partition (ext4) in sda2 with the unallocated space in sda1. I also can't shift the unallocated space in sda1 to sda2. Any idea how to expand my main Linux partition with the unallocated space?
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Nov 26, 2010
I have Ubuntu 10.10 installed along side of Windows 7 on the same partition. I'm a bit of a noob as I have only recently got serious about using Ubuntu daily. I was wondering how I could go about expanding the space Ubuntu can use seeing as how I don't have it set up as a separate partition.
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Mar 23, 2011
I am not sure where to post this so move please if its the wrong place. A few weeks ago i decided to try out Ubuntu, so I installed it as a dual boot, along with Windows 7. Now i have decided to switch fully to Ubuntu, so I have formatted the windows partition. Now however i am not sure how to allocated the unallocated space and expand the Ubuntu partition. Is even possible?
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Jul 6, 2011
how would i go about deleting my old kernel?i have my ubuntu machine partitioned the way gentoo would partition a drive with a seperate boot directory. my boot directory is only 200 megs so i can probably fit 4 kernels max into it and need to eject the old ones.
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Jun 29, 2011
So, I wan't completely paying attention to the default partitioning that Red Hat Enterprise 6 does.
I was setting up a base image for VMWare and the disk was 200GB, but for some reason the default is for about 40% to go to the root partition and then the rest of it to go to /home (this doesn't include the 2GB or so in swap).
Is there an easy way to recover the space under /home and expand the root partition? Assume there are no user accounts created.
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Mar 10, 2010
I have a 300 Gb Hard drive, I used to have windows xp on it but decided to install ubuntu, so what I did (after some suggestions) was to create 3 partitions, one of 30 Gb for windows (I use Adobe software), one of 10 Gb for Ubuntu 9.10 and the rest as a common partition used for storage. Started ok, but I really got hooked with ubuntu and now my partition is full!. My question is ( and here is where I show my deep ignorance and shame): can I "expand" the ubuntu partition gaining space from the storage one? If not, how many Gb would you recommend for an Ubuntu partition? I'm using a lot of music/video/graphics production software.
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Nov 29, 2010
So i am using xubuntu from wubi and i need more space to instal all the important security updates, How do i free up space? i think i made a mistake and did not allow it much space when i made the partition for it
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Jun 15, 2011
My boot partition doesn't have any space left, rendering me unable to install any updates. Most space in the boot directory (85 MB) is taken by the following files:
initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-26-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-27-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-28-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-29-generic
initrd.img-2.6.32-30-generic
It seems to me that I�d need at most one of these. What exactly do (or did) these initial ramdisks do, and is it safe to delete them?
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Jun 15, 2011
I'm not sure if I should post this question in "hardware & laptops", or "Desktop Environments", because this is a hardware problem on a desktop computer.
Description of Problem:There is another thread that discussed this same problem that I'm having: However that thread is so old that the suggestions in it no longer work in Ubuntu 10.04 and for whatever reason I can not make a reply to that thread.As in the above thread, I've tried other input devices and rebooting the computer and using other USB ports, and my mouse still intermittently double left clicks randomly at times when I've only clicked the left mouse button once and at times and places when it should only produce a single click such as when selecting a drop down menu.
Has any one else had this problem, and does any one have any idea how to fix it or to trouble shoot this a bit more? Please let me know if there is any other information I can provide to further clarify or troubleshoot this issue.
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Jan 31, 2010
Today I was installing a lot of software since I'm just setting up my Slackware system again after a fresh install, and I realized that my root partition has very little space left.
Here is the output of df -h:
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As you can see, I have a 20G (19G here for some reason) root partition, 8G /var, and 86G of /home. I thought this would be plenty since many recent recommendations for / are 10-15G. Now, though, 17G are used up for some reason! How is this possible? I thought a full slackware install only had about 4G of software! I don't have any music or movies or any crazy huge files that I know of, and those would be in my /home directory anyway. Is there any way I can see which files are taking up all this space?
If it's necessary to allocate more space to my / partition, is it still possible to boot up a GParted live Cd, shrink /home a bit, move some partitions to the right, and expand my root partition? I would REALLY prefer I don't have to reinstall since I just spent a ton of time setting up my system again, but if worst comes to worst ... :'-(
In case you're curious, here's my /etc/fstab:
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Initially space was created for root(/)...but it is unable to create space for swap and all other boot,home etc...
It is showing the error msg as "Could not create partition as there is no space left for /(root)"...
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Code: sudo badblocks -b 4096 -p 4 -c 65536 -w -s /dev/sdb1 on an empty partition taking up the entire device. I am getting the following output:
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1) When it gets to the "reading and comparing" phase, it seems to complete in <1s. I see other posts where people say this takes them as long as it took to write to the drive. I don't see any mention of this being quick, so I'm just afraid that badblocks is being denied read access or something.. Anyone familiar with this behaviour?
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