More on the blog: bit.ly/3thfR0C Increase partition size for Linux, when Linux and Windows are installed on the same harddisk or SSD. We use GParted to repartition the harddisk and change the partition sizes for Windows and Linux.
Hi Andy, I was searching for this after creating a dual boot machine. I rarely have to do any work with partitions (even less so with Linux), so this video was 100% what I needed. I followed your instructions and now my Linux partition is double the size. Thank you for such a great video!
In my case (Lenovo Legion Y7000) i had choose "other modes of gparted live " then "gparted live (safe graphic settings vgo=normal). Thank you so much for this video
As a begginer ubuntu user, I had no idea what I was doing when I allocated 28 gigs for my linux sys partition. Just like balgxmr I was searching for a fix like this and here we are. Problem solved. You are the best! Kudos!
Im a developer who is new to linux and i was so scared to lose all my projects, thanks to you!!! Everything works amazing :} Thats the trust i felt sir :P Thank you a lot again.
So underrated. I was searching a lot for this fix! Thank you very much, appreciate the time and effort, straight to the point and very well explained ;). Like and sub.
Thankyou so much. Very simple and easy steps to follow. For those who are saying it didn't worked try doing it in AHCI mode instead of RAID On in BIOS SATA Hard drive controller.
to prevent windows from wondering where the space went when you free it up in gparted, you can firstly shrink your windows volume in windows disk manager and it will be already prepared to be resized for the linux partition
Thank you so much for the tutorial, went perfectly well. The only thing that I think it lacked on commenting was when exiting the Gparted, we need to choose the option 'Reboot'. Besides that, solid tutorial, the best one I could find!!
Thanks for the feedback, yes you are right. But in general you can just reset / shutdown your computer after the operations with Gparted are done. Gparted runs from memory, so there is no harm doing that.
Thank you very much - this solved my exact problem. I first freed up space on the windows side because I was worried GParted wouldn't play nice with Windows. Thanks for clarifying the confusing key table option during start up. I did not have to reinstall Grub/dual boot either. I took out the USB too soon after exiting GParted, causing all sorts of error messages, but nothing was affected.
Well, it didn't work in my case using Gparted. The Linux slider box gave no room on either side to move into the unallocated Windows space. I could move the slider handles, but not the box itself. I had no luck inside Windows 10 either. So, I discovered a partition tool called *Easus* *Partition* *Master* (free version) that allowed me to expand the Linux partition right within Windows 10 itself. It was so simple and easy like the name says. It uses the slider handle to just slide left over the gray unallocated space gaining size as it moves. So glad I found it!
The screen stuch after slecting gparted live (default settings) with a background image of disks, I made my pendrive formatted fat32, 512bytes size and flashed the diskarted live completed succussfully without any error though?
I had an error where gparted said that "ntfsprogs/ntfs-3g" was missing. I solved it by changing the windows partition from ntfs to fat32 -> apply, then resizing partitions as needed and switching the windows partition back to ntfs -> apply. This is probably not the recommended way of solving that issue but i thought I might share anyway.
this was awesome. previously I try using another method which use live ubuntu to acces gparted and resize windows partition from windows but that give me some error, with this there is no error and can run smoothly
IN MY CASE (lenovo thinkpad) i had to choose "other modes of gparted live" then "gparted live (safe graphics settings, vga=normal) then it worked. In my case there were also a partition between the one i wanted to extent and the free space so i had to move the partition who was between at the end.
everything that could go wrong, went wrong. first of all, i have a /boot partition that i have to delete because i cannot move it. i copied it to somewhere in linux , hopefully if i make a new boot partition and copy paste it later, it will work properly! second, when i launch it, it says "unable to open display" - the visual mode just lags and never shows anything besides debian linux cli where i cannot do anything besides press ctrl +alt + delete to reboot my pc. i tried command line mode but guess what. i can't even type reboot or shutdown, it says it cannot connect to the bus! i am afraid to break anything but i still do that. i will keep trying for a bit and i will stop trying eventually
Hi.. I did exactly the same.. But while restarting pc, I don't see any gparted option in boot menu.. I simply got ubuntu, windows options only.. What to do?
You need to enter the UEFI/BIOS menu: typically every computer producer has its own dedicated key to be pressed at boot time to enter BIOS. Look up for your manufacturer info and you should be able to do it.
used rufus to get the iso file onto the usb drive, plugged it in, spammed esc to enter bios and went to boot menu, but i can't find gparted there, just ubuntu (mint) and windows, how do i fix this?
I assume you have Mint and Windows installed and it does not recognize the USB drive? One option is to try again with different settings, use MBR instead of GPT or vice versa.
after choosing the mode where you click enter, it showed some stuff just like in the video but the screen suddenly turned black with nothing. can anyone help?
Answer von ChatGPT 🙂 The small unallocated space you’re seeing, whether it's 2 MB or 10 MB, is a common occurrence on modern hard drives or SSDs. This space is typically reserved by the system and can serve various purposes depending on the configuration and the disk's partitioning scheme. Reasons for Unallocated Space: Partition Alignment: This small unallocated space is often created to ensure proper alignment of partitions, which can improve performance, especially on SSDs. In some cases, disk management tools or operating systems create this unallocated space during the partitioning process to align partitions on specific boundaries. GPT Partition Table: If your drive is using the GPT (GUID Partition Table) scheme, a small amount of space (usually a few MBs) might be reserved to store the GPT itself or for backup purposes. GPT stores two copies of the partition table (one at the beginning of the disk and one at the end), which might leave a small unallocated space. System Reserved or OEM Partitions: Sometimes, OEM manufacturers or operating systems leave a small unallocated space for potential future use, like system recovery or special tools. GPT Table Backup: Your hypothesis about this being related to the GPT table backup is plausible. The GPT partitioning scheme does indeed reserve space for a backup of the partition table. However, typically this backup does not require 10 MB. It's more common for this space to be in the range of 1 to 2 MB, but variations can occur depending on how the disk was partitioned.
Sorry for the late response, I tried it out, it works the same way: ekiwi-blog.de/en/23824/windows-and-linux-dualboot-shrink-linux-partition-with-gparted/
After booting the flash drive and selecting GParted Live, it says “error: invalid magic number” “error: you need to load the kernel first.” Can anyone please help?
According to this forum, the creation of the USB drive might not have worked correctly: www.linux.org/threads/solved-invalid-magic-number-need-to-load-kernel-first.30204/ So one option could be to recreate the boot device.
There is an additional partition in between my newly created unallocated partition and Linux partition. Thus unable to merge unallocated to Linux...what to do
I want to increase my ubuntu 20.04 and my system is dual boot(windows 11 and ubuntu 20.04) whenever i gparted default live partition then it display this message "acpi bios error(bug) failure creating object
Thank you for the excellent guide, but I have a problem, when I boot with flash that has live gparted I get error: set_second_stage() failed: Invalid Parameter Something has gone seriously wrong: shim_init() failed: Invalid Parameter , I tried several variants on rufus but did not help, any suggestions? I also have dual boot with grub, Kali Linux and WIn 10, maybe I can just use gparted in Kali or there's a chance to break stuff?
You can try different start options in first menu: imgur.com/a/W0Jpy2y In my case, it sometimes takes an awful lot of time before anything happens. Just did a test on one of my computers here, it took over 10 minutes. Good luck.
@@ekiwi-blog-english I figured it out, I used disk manager in windows to shrink the volume for windows, then went into gparted to extend the KDE Linux volume.
