Cannot increase disk space on VM using GParted

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I am running VM Workstation 12 Player and have installed Ubuntu 16.10 on the VM. I would like to resize my partitions to make use of the allocated space and tried to follow the directions here. I downloaded gparted-live-0.29.0-1-amd64.iso and booted the VM up with the following settings.

When I start up. I get the Ubuntu Unity desktop and click on GParted which is in the Unity menu. GParted starts up with the following.

I would like to add the unallocated disk space to /dev/sda1 but cannot move any of the boundaries. When I click on /dev/sda1 and select Resize, I cannot choose a size greater than 19.455 GB.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 30 '17 at 18:09

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You have to remove sda2 partition before. It is impossible to resize a partition if there is no unallocated space just next to it. After resizing you can recreate the removed sda2.

answered Sep 30 '17 at 18:09

aemstuz

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I right-clicked on the sda2 partition and Delete is disabled. Same when I right clicked on sda5. Thanks, – OtagoHarbour Sep 30 '17 at 18:22
I cannot find, or install lvremove on my Ubuntu system. Thanks, – OtagoHarbour Sep 30 '17 at 18:27
/dev/sad5 is not mounted. Swapoff removed the locks but Delete is still disabled. – OtagoHarbour Sep 30 '17 at 18:52
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OK. umount -f did the trick. It enabled Delet and I deleted sda2 and sda5. Then I was able to resize sda1 with the unallocated space. – OtagoHarbour Sep 30 '17 at 18:59

Cannot increase disk space on VM using GParted

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