Partition Problem

Question

So I installed Trusty tahr alongside Xp yesterday because I got bored of the stupid green hill , it works like a charm

BUT

There's only one 6gb partition for the OS and I can't even resize it should I just remove XP? Or what should I do to make it larger?

Oh , so it's basically from the live CD mode thingy huh okay then thanks! — omarlink, May 09 '14 at 11:52
Your HD is very small and most of the space is used by Windows. I would reinstall Ubuntu and use the whole HD. This will destroy all your data so make sure you've a backup. Also you'll lose Windows. — Louis Matthijssen, May 09 '14 at 11:54
@Louis Matthijssen well i thought of that too but currently am super busy and can't do anything Big yet , Thanks in advance — omarlink, May 09 '14 at 11:56
boot from ubuntu live disk, resize your 48 GB ntfs partition then add the created unallocated space with your Ubuntu partition(/dev/sda7) — Avinash Raj, May 09 '14 at 12:26

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 09 '14 at 11:52

and welcome.

Caution when delete partitions that you don't really know what is. It could be:

Recovery partition also called "PQSERVICE" (specially on notebooks with pre-installed Windows)
Linux Swap created after you installed Ubuntu
Random data partition for documents

How do i check this information?

1.Press Master Key or Windows Key on keyboard

2.Search for Disk and click on Disk app

3.On device menu, should be your hard disk on the list, click on it

4.On graphical display, will show details of your partitions and what describes them

Example of my HDD

PQService (windows recovery pre-installed)
System Reserved (essential files to Bios and boot)
Acer Partition 3 (windows7)
Extended Parititon (Linux,Linux Swap and document partition)
Free unallocated space (needed information to create partitions, system reserved)

If it is free space or windows partition that you don't want its safe to remove and expand your Linux in-use partition

Example of my HDD

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