In this tutorial, the author explains how to resize a Linux partition using GParted when you have unallocated space on your hard drive. They demonstrate the process using an Ubuntu system, covering steps from creating a bootable live image to resizing the root file partition and managing swap. Highlights 📟 To resize Linux partitions, create a bootable live image using tools like Balena Etcher. 🖥 Boot into the live environment and use GParted, a disk management tool, to make the changes. 💾 Carefully select the correct disk to avoid making changes to the wrong one. 🔄 If you have a swap partition, turn off swap, resize or move it, and turn it back on. 📊 Extend the root file partition to utilize unallocated space. 🔒 Always back up your data before making changes to your disks. 🚀 After completing the process, restart your system and ensure the changes took effect.

Man!!! I wasted my day looking for how to do that, and you solve so easy!!! Thanks for sharing. The best video!

Yeah. Finally I did it. I was reading articles about it, but really didn't want to do it through the terminal. They said Gparted only will work if free partition is on the right, but it did work for me. Thank you!

Thank you! I've looked at many videos on this topic and you just nailed it with the safest and easiest way to achieve this. I really appreciate it!

Thank you very much! I’ve resized partitions many times in the past, I had the issue where I shrunk one partition to add onto another, and my unused space wound up on /dev/sda9, but I couldn’t figure out how to move it over, you covered this topic very well, unlike everyone else!

Thank you! I was searching for hours to know how to do this

Thanks for the clear and easy to follow tutorial! Helped me a lot

Thank you for this! I couldn't figure out why I couldn't resize my partition, and it was because other partitions were in the way. I moved those one by one and then I could resize the one I wanted.

Great video… saved me a bunch of time in transferring three Linux systems to larger 1TB drives. I’ve been using gparted for years, but in such specific ways that I didn’t realize the move/resize function existed, much less would be so easy to use. Truly the Swiss Army knife of Linux partitioning utilities, and together with Balena Etcher or other ‘dd’-based to clone partitions you really can do what you want without too much hassle (not counting the time required to move very large partitions). I use a custom script to do the dd work, but only because Balena Etcher is hardwired to run only a single verification pass. For older drives, and especially older SSD drives, I prefer four to six verification passes just to be on the safe side, but that’s just me. It’s not so important if you’re Etching a temporary boot drive, as in this video, but it might make a difference if you’re cloning truly vital data that you want to assure isn’t corrupted. Thanks for posting this video!!

Easy and straight to the point. Nice video

You saved me from having to format my work laptop, you're a legend!

This really helped me. I need to move ubuntu server from a 2tb hdd to a 1tb ssd and i needed to downsize the partition in order to do that.

I suffered all round the internet till I met this. Freaking legend

Thank you! It worked out for me! you r the only one who showed this trick!!!!!))

For any one dual booting. When Linux is to the right of the free space. You can move it all the way to the left. Then simply move it all the way to the right while in your fake Linux(I used the USB) and call it a day.

Thank you again Nik! My disk looks great and uncluttered.

God dammit, watched so many tuts and every time the same nonsense and no solution. And finally... i found yours. Thanks man! Helped me out - pretty easy to solve if you know what do to :D. Moving swap fixed it. Couldnt expand main drive.

Used the gparted live usb with a desktop so I could quickly expand my arch installation. Thank you for showing me the sliding, that's where I got stuck.

This work for me And without any those ads third party tool Thanks

It took hardly 10 min to understand. Thank you so much!!!

Thanks a lot brother, I have been wondering so long for this solution but nowhere found this great solution

So much easier to boot to the live desktop disk and resize than the command line. I've done both for ubuntu server. It's a time saver.

Only this tutorial that actually works, other just recommend a lot of useless commands

Thank you. I tried watching a few videos before that just dragged on very slowly without saying anything and at the end my question wasn't even answered. Thank you!!!

OMG you bios is like a windows)))) I am using Ubuntu just in case)

Incredibly useful and clear! Great video!

I LOVE YOU THANK YOU FINALLY SOEMTHING THAT WORKED

Perfect !!! Just what i was looking for

Thanks for posting this - did exactly what I needed!

Excellent video, I had days looking for a solution, ty

thank you! had to look for this video since I'm no longer dual booting my steamdeck and wanted the space back for steamos, than you again :)

Works like a charm! Thank you brother! You saved my day!

Thanks a lot ❤ Very nice and easy to follow tutorial. Worked well for me 😊

The training was complete and practical, thank you 🙏

Helped a lot! October 2022 ubuntu 20.0

Superb video, as usual. One question: In a dual-boot situation, if Windows is at /sda2, can I use your method to shrink Windows, then extend Linux to the left instead of the right? I need to increase the space for Linux, but my unused space is at to the left of the Linux partition, not the right.

I have window and ubuntu i have a SSD and the partition are like this Efi | window | 40gb | ubuntu / | ubuntu home | swap Now I want to get 20 space from window and add it to 40 gb which is easy so now it will look like this Efi | window | 60gb | ubuntu / | ubuntu home | swap I can do this easy but my question is can I remove 20 gb from my ubuntu home and move it over ubuntu / so that my 60 becames 80 gb Step-1 Efi | window | 60gb | ubuntu / | 20gb | ubuntu home | swap Step-2 Efi | window | 80gb | ubuntu / | ubuntu home | swap Do you think this will break the system i didn't made any changes to efi partion so I think this should be fine

Thank you for this excellent tutorial, helped me tremendously!

you are a f***cking hero!

Dual boot process works. U should most certainly be able to do it even if the unallocated space is in front of the partition.

It worked for me.

Thank you, your video was very helpful for me. Keep up the good work.

Great video, but how is the preocess if the unallocated space is before the ubuntu partition? how to use that space and merge it with linux partition?

Great tutorial, thanks Nik!!

Thanks mate, I learnt something amazing today.

Thanks a lot. It works successfully for me!

Working flawlessly! Thank you.

Thank you! This was clear and helpful

BTW a very handy video.. thank you! Amazing channel.. so many utility uploads. Subscribed!

The hardest part for me was creating the bootable USB then updating the BIOS to put USB boot first. UBUNTU has a Startup Disk Creator.

Thanks for the tutorial, it works really well!!!

Hello, thank you for this guide, he helped me a lot. However, I have a problem, because after enlarging of the partition , the system (Openmediavault) boots noticeably longer. What could be the reason?

You are awesome my man!

After i did this i can't select where download files from my browsers and i can't select where is the default download location. I tried in brave,opera and firefox.

I have the efi in the way so how do I fix that?

Thanks. The big 100-dollar question is what can you do if the EFI partition is in between two partitions and you want to resize one of them and move the EFI partition elsewhere.

You're the best man!

My filesystem still shows the same size. What do I do to extend the file system to use the fully allocated space?

Very helpfull indeed! Keep up the great work

I had a dual boot with Linuxmint 20.3 and Win 7. The Win 7 has died, how can I reclaim the partition to add back to Linuxmint?

You were useful. Here's a like. Here's a sub.

I accidentally create swap partition way higher than i need when installing linux, and i would like decrease the swap partition and make home partition the rest of it. is there any way to create home partition in gparted?

Exactly what I need!

Hey I tried this but I am getting an error to update e2fsck can you help me with this. I am using gparted on linux mint and changing files of arch linux.

It felt like you're awesome!

I am using arch right now and want to extend the size of root partition. Can i do it with ubuntu as you've shown in your video?

Hey, you don't know Ubuntu disks? Maybe it's available in the newer version.

So my problem is the efi partition is right in the middle of my unallocated space and ext4 system files partition.... So my only option is to move the efi partition to the left of it all and then grow the filesystem into the unallocated space. If I have to reinstall or repair ah well. Better than having hardly any space.

Thanks bro. You saved me☺

i extracted the ubuntu file and some "discks" showed up. i can i delete them?? also a lot of file showed up. i cant delete them either!

I have zorin os and the storage is shown as 16gib, but the disk i put is 240 gib.

You are a star. Thank you

Thank you sir

In love mode, my wifi adapter and bluetooth adapter are not working Nik. Any idea ? @anybody !

Thanx learned a lot

Hey Everything is working fine now ! BUT my booting had become slow, what to do?

Can I use live ubuntu while using arch on my disk?

Question, if I already have the bootable disk with my linux distro on, can I just skip the 3 steps and just go to gparted step or still have to do all the 4 steps?

I have a Home Partition different from root partition. Can I shrink the home and allocated the space to the root partition using this method?

still have one unallocated space that I cannot attribute to the linux partition

how i can make a raid partion mirror or strip and cash speace in this system

Thanks, helped a lot

I have a question 🤔 Does EFI System partition has to be in /dev/sda1 only? I have mine in /dev/sda2. I now have /dev/sda1 unallocated. /dev/sda2 by EFI file system partition. /dev/sda3 Linux distribution. How can I add that first partition to my 3 partition?

Can i do the same steps for Kaali Linux..?

Hi, i was just wondering if it possible to extend the boot partition? I heard you said not to mess with that partition, but is it ok to only extend it? Thanks

please help!!! My flash drive accidentally got removed when i was gparting what should i do

It works wonders!!

thank you, really useful

you are the man!!!!

Can we do this if it is encrypted?

thanks it worked!!

Does this method cope well with dual boot? I'm currently using Windows 11 and Ubuntu 22.04, will it damage my Window or Ubuntu system?

You cool man! Thank you.

Hello thanks for your tutorial! But when i click resize for ext4 then i get alert " Unable to resize read-only file system /dev/nvme0n1p7 " i don know how to fix this. Please tell me. Thanks u so much

Thank you bro!

Great video. Everything worked! Thanks!

Mil gracias!

Will this remove the files in the existing ubuntu installation?

Cheers!

thanks a lot 🤩