Gparted cannot resize extended or LVM partition
Solution 1:
After some help from linuxdev2013, this is what I did:
The problem was that the partitions were somehow locked. So:
- I right Clicked both sda2 and sda5 and chose "Deactivate".
- I resized the extended (sda2) partition.
- I resized the lvm (sda5) partition.
The problem was fixed.
I should add that in the VM the new space was not available, so I had to run those 2 commands: expand LVM to all remaining free space:
lvextend –l +100%FREE [MOUNTPOINT]
expand filesystem:
sudo resize2fs [MOUNTPOINT]