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I formatted the unallocated space to fat32 (don't know if that was right). Now I want to extend my dev/sda5 for more memory as I'm currently getting warnings about my low memory space. Above My /dev/sda5 is New Partition #1 with 19.53 gigs and below it is the linux-swap. I can take memory from the linux swap as well as I have quite a bit of RAM.

I read that I'm meant to boot off USB and run GParted, unswap the linux-swap and then delete it. Unmount the sda5 and after that, resize the /dev/sda5 to take up some of that hard drive space and then turn on swap afterwards. Is this right? Double checking because I already messed it up once.

https://i.stack.imgur.com/jUADP.png

Thank so much! Reading from here: http://www.howtogeek.com/114503/how-to-resize-your-ubuntu-partitions/

user68186
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Pranav Anand
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  • Please stop reading from there and start reading from here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/126153/how-to-resize-partitions ;-) – Fabby Feb 04 '15 at 01:51

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Don't forget to set the mount point to "/"

then in terminal:

sudo update_grub

The swap of 4 GB is more than enough if you have RAM >= 8 GB .

Mark Khateeb
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  • I'm assuming you set the mount point of the unallocated space but how do you set the mount point? – Pranav Anand Feb 04 '15 at 01:11
  • in the photo you provided, the mount point "/" is at your ext4 drive, after expanding it, make sure you keep the mount point "/" at ext4 drive. – Mark Khateeb Feb 04 '15 at 01:17