Resize or Extend a Linux Partition/Volume/Disk (Swap – Ubuntu – Gparted)
Tutorial on How to Resize/Extend a Linux Partition, Volume, or Disk using Ubuntu with Gparted. This applies to all versions of Ubuntu and most Linux Distros with a Linux Swap partition. You can extend or resize your storage by using the Gparted utility.
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In this tutorial, the author explains how to resize a Linux partition using GParted when you have unallocated space on your hard drive. They demonstrate the process using an Ubuntu system, covering steps from creating a bootable live image to resizing the root file partition and managing swap.
Highlights
📟 To resize Linux partitions, create a bootable live image using tools like Balena Etcher.
🖥 Boot into the live environment and use GParted, a disk management tool, to make the changes.
💾 Carefully select the correct disk to avoid making changes to the wrong one.
🔄 If you have a swap partition, turn off swap, resize or move it, and turn it back on.
📊 Extend the root file partition to utilize unallocated space.
🔒 Always back up your data before making changes to your disks.
🚀 After completing the process, restart your system and ensure the changes took effect.
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I accidentally create swap partition way higher than i need when installing linux, and i would like decrease the swap partition and make home partition the rest of it. is there any way to create home partition in gparted?
Thank you for this excellent tutorial, helped me tremendously!
After i did this i can't select where download files from my browsers and i can't select where is the default download location. I tried in brave,opera and firefox.
Linux simply Rocks, I use RichARCH btw. With it I was able to get Arch Linux up and running simply and quickly.
Thank you again Nik! My disk looks great and uncluttered.
Thanks a lot ❤ Very nice and easy to follow tutorial. Worked well for me 😊
Thank you. I tried watching a few videos before that just dragged on very slowly without saying anything and at the end my question wasn't even answered. Thank you!!!
This video is so helpful, oh my god 🫡🥹
I have zorin os and the storage is shown as 16gib, but the disk i put is 240 gib.
Question, if I already have the bootable disk with my linux distro on, can I just skip the 3 steps and just go to gparted step or still have to do all the 4 steps?
Thank you very much! I’ve resized partitions many times in the past, I had the issue where I shrunk one partition to add onto another, and my unused space wound up on /dev/sda9, but I couldn’t figure out how to move it over, you covered this topic very well, unlike everyone else!
Hey Everything is working fine now ! BUT my booting had become slow, what to do?
Idk why im having such a hard time comprehending swaps and ram usage on linux but i am. Im using a shit computer with 4gb ram 32gb storage so trying to optimize it
This really helped me. I need to move ubuntu server from a 2tb hdd to a 1tb ssd and i needed to downsize the partition in order to do that.
Will this remove the files in the existing ubuntu installation?
What if my efi partition is in the way?
Is it still applicable on Ubuntu 23.04 ?
Works like a charm!
Thank you brother! You saved my day!