Can't format / delete locked partition from GParted?

Solution 1:

If it's an LVM partition, you will need to deactivate it using the command lvremove which will remove the lock.
Only then can you delete the partition using gparted.

Use lvscan to view the volume.

Use lvremove to remove it.

Check man pages man lvscan and man lvremove for details.

Solution 2:

Right click on the swap partitions and select swapoff. This will unlock the extended partition and let you resize/move.

Solution 3:

Open a Terminal on Ubuntu (live cd) and force unmount the partition.

sudo umount -f <name of your partition>

The name of your partition is probably something like /dev/sdb or /dev/sda2. Be careful to type the right file name here. You can use df to find the device file for a mounted partition.

Solution 4:

My 'active distro' occupied another drive, I just wanted to get rid of the Fedora LVM - fedora doesn't play nice with other distro's destroyed my 'grub2' list and wouldn't allow any other distro to boot, so needed to 'get rid'

lvscan + lvremove as sudo worked a treat

$ sudo lvscan
  ACTIVE            '/dev/fedora_localhost/swap' [7.81 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/fedora_localhost/home' [407.39 GiB] inherit
  ACTIVE            '/dev/fedora_localhost/root' [50.00 GiB] inherit
$ sudo lvremove /dev/fedora_localhost/swap
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume swap? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "swap" successfully removed
$ sudo lvremove /dev/fedora_localhost/home
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume home? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "home" successfully removed
$ sudo lvremove /dev/fedora_localhost/root
Do you really want to remove and DISCARD active logical volume root? [y/n]: y
Logical volume "root" successfully removed

Issue resolved ... thanks 'geezanansa'