I installed Ubuntu 16.04 alongside Windows, giving it 50 Gb of space. Now, I need more space. I'm using gParted and I managed to unallocate a piece of partition. How can I extend Ubuntu with the space I reserved? Many thanks
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1You can't resize a partition when it's mounted and root partition can't be unmounted, it can be done from Live USB ubuntu mode (but i'm not sure that's why i just posted comment) – Sumeet Deshmukh Apr 24 '17 at 17:19
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This is an easy one...
Backup any data on your Ubuntu partition, as this procedure could corrupt or loose data.
- Boot to a Ubuntu Live DVD/USB in "Try Ubuntu" mode
- start
gparted
from the Unity dashboard - right-click on sda8 in the lower pane and select resize
- hover the mouse pointer over the left side of sda8 until it turns into a directional pointer
- click and drag the left side of sda8 all the way left
- click OK to close the move/resize window
- click the
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