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I installed dual boot and decided to remove to windows partition. I used gparted to do this. As you can see in the image I have some allocated space now. My question is, whether it is possible to extend the sda6 partition into the uncatalogued space. The problem is that I can't move anything around and there is now option to extend it using the resize/move option.

Screenshot gparted

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Tijn Berns
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    The partition as shown is in-use (ie. mounted), it needs to be unmounted before you can re-size it. It's easiest to do this via 'live' media (ie. boot your Ubuntu install media, use 'try ubuntu' and then re-size). – guiverc Apr 22 '20 at 09:54
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    Does this answer your question? [How to resize partitions?](https://askubuntu.com/questions/126153/how-to-resize-partitions) – karel Apr 23 '20 at 00:29

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First you need to boot from a liveUSB and use gparted to resize the partition.

As an alternative consider simply creating another partition in the unallocated space and use it maybe as a home partition. More information on how to do this here.

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Make sure that you have a good backup of your important Ubuntu files, as this procedure can corrupt or lose data.

Keep these things in mind:

  • always start the entire procedure with issuing a swapoff on any mounted swap partitions, and end the entire procedure with issuing a swapon on that same swap partition

  • a move is done by pointing the mouse pointer at the center of a partition and dragging it left/right with the hand cursor

  • a resize is done by dragging the left/right side of a partition to the left/right with the directional arrow cursor

  • if any partition can't be moved/resized graphically, you may have to manually enter the specific required numeric data (don't do this unless I instruct you to)

  • you begin any move/resize by right-clicking on the partition in the lower pane of the main window, and selecting the desired action from the popup menu, then finishing that action in the new move/resize window

Do the following...

Note: if the procedure doesn't work exactly as I outline, STOP immediately and DO NOT continue.

  • boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB, in “Try Ubuntu” mode
  • start gparted
  • move the /dev/sda6 partition all the way left
  • resize the right side of /dev/sda6 to the right, to the desired size
  • click the Apply icon
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