Gparted can't resize Ubuntu partition [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu with Windows. Before installing, I shrunk the space for Ubuntu. Now I have 3.7GB free in my Ubuntu home.That's not enough for me.
So I shrunk my NTFS partition, it's now unalocated. Then I selected ext4 (Ubuntu home) to resize.
But it is 4GB and GParted not allowed to resize more than 4GB. But my 1GB is unallocated.
/dev/sda5
is a logical partition inside an extended partition (/dev/sda4
), while the unallocated space lies outside of that extended partition.
You need to resize /dev/sda4
to include the unallocated space first, then resize /dev/sda8
.
Unfortunately GParted won’t let you touch /dev/sda4
(note the key symbol), because some of its child partitions are still mounted (more key symbols) and you can’t unmount the root file system on /dev/sda7
. To circumvent this issue, you need to perform the above procedure from a live system (analogous to How do I resize root partition?).