How to increase size of /boot partition using gparted
please help me here i am always getting messages saying no free space available in boot partition.
output of ls -alh /boot
total 79M
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 1.0K Sep 7 20:53 .
drwxr-xr-x 23 root root 4.0K Sep 5 18:38 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.2M May 8 16:14 abi-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1.3M Aug 17 12:10 abi-4.1.6-040106-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 168K May 8 16:14 config-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 177K Aug 17 12:10 config-4.1.6-040106-generic
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 1.0K Sep 5 14:23 grub
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M Aug 22 22:49 initrd.img-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28M Aug 24 00:35 initrd.img-4.1.6-040106-generic
drwx------ 2 root root 12K Aug 12 12:52 lost+found
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 174K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+.elf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 175K Mar 12 2014 memtest86+_multiboot.bin
-rw------- 1 root root 3.4M May 8 16:14 System.map-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 3.6M Aug 17 12:10 System.map-4.1.6-040106-generic
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6.1M Jun 28 01:15 vmlinuz-3.16.0-38-generic
-rw------- 1 root root 6.4M Aug 17 12:10 vmlinuz-4.1.6-040106-generic
output of sudo parted -l
Model: ATA ST9500325AS (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs hidden
2 106MB 140GB 140GB primary ntfs boot
3 140GB 471GB 331GB primary ntfs
4 471GB 500GB 29.5GB extended lba
5 471GB 493GB 22.0GB logical ext4
6 493GB 499GB 6536MB logical linux-swap(v1)
7 499GB 500GB 910MB logical ext4
@Pilot6
You need to boot from Ubuntu LiveUSB first.
Your sda5
, sda6
and sda7
partitions are inside the extended sda4
partition.
You will need to extend sda4
, then move sda5
and sda6
left, then extend sda7
.
You will also need to re-install grub, because start sector of your /boot
partition will change. It can be done from LiveUSB by
sudo mount /dev/sda5 /mnt
sudo mount /dev/sda7 /mnt/boot
sudo chroot /mnt
sudo grub-install /dev/sda
exit