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So I have an unallocated space in one of my disks, and I want to use it in order to storage my Downloads, I want to know first how can I make this space an usable space, and second, how can I move my Downloads folder there (this is easy on windows but I don't know how to do this here), thanks in advice, I made a capture: enter image description here

Andres Pasquel
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  • Does this answer your question? How to resize partitions? – user535733 Jun 21 '21 at 21:45
  • I'm not sure, I have ubuntu installed in another different disk (/dev/sdb), I want to use this unallocated space from another disk to save files. – Andres Pasquel Jun 21 '21 at 22:02
  • Since over 2TiB is this gpt partitioned. You can create a new partition and mount it in your Linux install. If gpt, you can just create new partition(s). You can use gparted if you want ext4 Linux only partition. https://askubuntu.com/questions/1013677/storing-data-on-second-hdd-mounting & https://askubuntu.com/questions/1058756/installing-all-applications-on-a-ssd-disk-and-putting-all-files-on-hdd-disk – oldfred Jun 21 '21 at 22:12

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You need to create a file system in order to use the space.

You can use the "Disks" application to do format the partition and create a file system:

  • Open the "Disks" application (gnome-disk-utility).

  • In the left column, select the physical disk where the partition is located. Then, on the right, select the unallocated space that you want to format.

  • Just below the graphical representation of the partitions on the drive, click the + icon that says "Create partition in unallocated space"

  • Click "Next" if you want to use all of the unallocated space. Otherwise, adjust the size of the new partition before clicking "Next"

  • Give the new partition a "Volume Name", and choose the type of file system you would like to use. If you are going to use the partition for Ubuntu only, select "Internal disk for use with Linux systems only (Ext4)".

  • Click "Create" to create the new partition.

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  • It worked with disk, I tried to do with gparted but it said that it will remove all the files on the device. With disk I didn't have this problem and only formated the unallocated space, thank you. – Andres Pasquel Jun 21 '21 at 23:04
  • I am getting error g-dbus-error-quark, 4 . I am doing this on my internal disk where i also have ubuntu (i only have one disk). What else can i do? – YourHelper Jun 22 '22 at 18:01
  • I see that your question has been answered here – Nmath Jun 22 '22 at 22:28