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Refers to space on the hard drive that does not yet have a partition in it.

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Partitions. is it safe to move partition containing /boot?

I am running dualboot (Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04) and I would like to make more space for my Ubuntu partition. I am doing it from a live cd through gparted. I was about to resize my windows partition to get unallocated space and resized my ubuntu…
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Extending Ubuntu Partition size with the unallocated space (swap is between these two)

My Ubuntu 12.04 is set up on virtualbox, the host system is Windows 7. When setting up my system, I created 8GB VDI hard drive. In a short time I run out of free space, so I increased the size of the VDI to ~50GB via Windows. Now I'm trying to…
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GParted claims whole hard drive is unallocated and gives warning about GPT table

For months I have been happily using my 3TB hard drive, and I still do. Today I discovered that GParted shows the whole drive (/dev/sdb) as being unallocated. The drive works fine though. Clicking for more information in GParted gives me the…
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liveCD Doesn't See Unallocated Space In My Hard Disk

I'm trying to dual boot Ubuntu 14.10 on my computer. I have Windows 7 installed and shrunk my main partition to leave a roughly 250 Gb gap (Unallocated). Partitioned as such: Recovery (20 GB) System Reserved (100 MB) Windows Main (1132.96…
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How to allocate unallocated space of hard disk in Ubuntu 12.4 after installation

How to allocate unallocated space of hard disk in Ubuntu 12.04 after installation. My system is running fine with Windows and Linux. I am using Windows rarely and for my official purpose I am using Ubuntu 12.04. I forgot to allocate around 100 GB of…
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GParted not opening

I am a newbie in Ubuntu. I am running Ubuntu 16.04.1, dual booted with Windows 8. I have some unallocated space on my hard disk which I want to use in Ubuntu. I heard Gparted is the best tool for this. I ran the command gksudo gparted on the…
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Merge two unallocated partition using gparted?

I am having a trouble in merging two unallocated partition. Can anyone help me with this? The problem that I found different is, the unallocated partition seems to be inside the /dev/sda3.
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Can't unmount ext 4 in gparted

I wanted to add extra swap to my pc I followed lots of tutorials but i needed to make a unallocated partition and for that I needed to unmount ext4 I'm totally new in Ubuntu or linux Anybody a suggestion?
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Can't extend root partition even after booting from LiveUSB

After doing some research on how to extend Ubuntu root partition, I tried to extend it using the GParted from a liveUSB session of Ubuntu. But I couldn't extend it. When I right click on my root partition and select resize/move, it doesn't offer me…
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Ubuntu 13.10 with encryption installed manually won't load on SSD

I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my new SSD drive in laptop. I have no other OS and want to use whole disk for Ubuntu installation. However, I've read that it's best to leave some unallocated space on SSD to extend its lifetime. I also want to use…
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Problems Installing Ubuntu 13.10 Alongside Windows 7 - gpart shows unallocated space

I've searched for people with similar problems but none of the fixes seem to be working for me. I have a Windows 7 (200gb + 100mb reserved partitions) and the rest (~800gb) as unallocated. This is how it's represented in Windows and…
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Installing ubuntu 12.04 LTS alongwith windows xp in two different HDDs

I have two HDDs. First HDD has four partitions with Windows XP in the first partition Second has two partitions and 15GB unallocated space. I tried to install Ubuntu 12.04 LTS in the second HDD by using Unallocated space. I tried for 6 times.…
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How to increase the partition size of root disk in ubuntu linux?

I have some 55 Gb unallocated space in my disk and I want to give it to root but I can't resize the root disk. I even tried to do it by bootable live USB but inside Gparted, the root partition doesn't show available 55 GB space.
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Cannot create a new partition for unallocated space using gparted

I know this question is a duplicate(s), but the possible fix given for other question doesn't really help. Here is view of my drive: What I want is to partition the unallocated space, but am told Cannot create a new partition for my unallocated. On…
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GParted cannot expand root partition

How can I expand root "/" partition by that 4.48GB unallocated partition? I have LiveCD with GParted, but I dont know how to shift that partition.
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