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How to increase space for installing programs

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2786 / 2 Years ago, thu, july 21, 2022, 1:03:35

Noobie on 12.04. Sorry if this has been answered before but I have not been able to locate it.

I had Ubuntu and Windows installed together and then got rid of Windows. However, when I install programs they go into dev/sda1 and it is running out of room, while my newly created ext4 partition dev/sda2 is where all the memory sits (yes, I know, "all the memory" -- it is an old laptop). If I want to be able to install more programs, do I need to run gparted and resize partitions? Or is this an issue of "ownership" or using grub? Or something else? Here is what I look like:

    Disk /dev/sda: 60.0 GB, 60022480896 bytes

    255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7297 cylinders, total 117231408 sectors

    Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes

    Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

    Disk identifier: 0xbf2ebf2e



    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

    /dev/sda1   *          63   101936392    50968165    7  HPFS/NTFS/exFAT

    /dev/sda2       101937150   117229567     7646209    5  Extended

    /dev/sda5       116203520   117229567      513024   82  Linux swap / Solaris

    /dev/sda6       101937152   116203519     7133184   83  Linux

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I want more space from /dev/sda1 to /dev/sda6 which was my root partition.

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answered 2 Years ago iething · Accepted Answer

Gparted resize,delete only an unmounted partiion.So to resize the root partition you have to boot Ubuntu live disk.

While booting from live-disk click on try Ubuntu option.

Open gparted partition Editor from Dash.Make sure that all the partitions are unmounted.

Now resize the /dev/sda1 partition of space you want for dev/sda6.

After resizing,an unallocated space was created just below to the /dev/sda1.

Now right-click on the /dev/sda2 partition and click on Resize/Move option.Now drag the left arrow to the extreme left and then apply the changes.So that the unallocated space will come inside the extended partition.Now it comes just below to the /dev/sda5.

Right-click on the /dev/sda5 partition and click on Resize/Move option,move the dragger to the extreme right,so that the unallocated space will comes just above to the dev/sda5 linux-swap partition.

Now you can be able to increase the size of /dev/sda6 root partition.