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I have installed Windows 7 and ubuntu 12.04 as dual boot on my 320 GB laptop. I have three partitions. 200 GB - Window's 7 is installed in it. 100 GB - NTFS partition (un used). 20 GB - Ubuntu 12.04.

I can access 100 GB (new volume) both in windows and ubuntu 12.04.

I am running out of ubuntu disk space. How can I extend/increase 20 GB to 120 GB by using 100 GB(unused) disk space?

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If the 100 GB partition is contiguous with the 20 GB partition, then you can do this fairly easily:

Boot from a live CD/USB

open a terminal alt+ctrl+t

get gparted

sudo apt-get install gparted

run gparted, and choose to resize your Ubuntu partition.

If the free space is not contiguous with the Ubuntu partition, you may need to move things about a bit.

Before you do these things, make a backup of both of your systems - there's always a possibility of things going awry, and Windows does not like to have it's partitions messed about with very much.

Charles Green
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  • what kind of live CD/USB do you recommend? – Yevgeniy Afanasyev Jul 27 '15 at 00:06
  • I think that the minimum size USB has to be 4 GB, and I use standard DVD's for boot purposes. I have had occasional trouble with some USB devices, but I have quite a few of the smaller devices lying around and just pick another. – Charles Green Jul 27 '15 at 13:55
  • @[Charles Green] Could we not run the gparted from inside the ubuntu which is installed? What issue could it cause ? – Kai Nov 14 '15 at 18:25