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I need help with increasing the size of the file-system partition. Partitioning-o-phobia!

rated 0 times [ 1] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2110 / 3 Years ago, thu, september 23, 2021, 4:44:00

When I firstly installed Ubuntu I gave it 20GB of space for the filesystem. ...time passed and I get a message "the system has only 300MB available" so I need to enlarge the filesystem.

Here's my partition table:

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I'm a total noob to partitioning and I have a horrible experience with it; once i had this problem: https://askubuntu.com/questions/383551/fix-partition-or-rescue-data-from-it-i-used-ddrescue on my notebook. Thanks to the great support I got, I gained the tumbleweed badge and I couldn't fix it and I had to re-install windows. The notebook didn't have much important data but this computer's much more important to me. I have backed up the data on the "Database" partition.

anyways

I need step-by-step instructions how to take space from the "Database" partition to enlarge my "filesystem" partition. and what about that red exclamation mark at /dev/sda6? how do I deal with it? ... what is it?? The red exclamation is not gone!

Tell me any extra information you need to know. Thanks in advance! :D

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answered 3 Years ago mance · Accepted Answer

From the comments op said that he wants 50 GB space from the /dev/sda6 partition and add that space to the /dev/sda7 root partition.

In the gparted screenshot,it was clearly shown that there was an exclamatory mark for dev/sda6 ntfs partition which means windows was not fully shutdown.You have to remove the exclamatory mark to resize that ntfs partition.

To remove the exclamatory mark,boot into Windows,insert the ubuntu live disk then restart your pc(not shutdown).

On the startup press function+Fx key to enter into the bios.

Now change the boot-order to ubuntu live disk as first option and save the changes.

It will boot from the live-disk,now open gparted.

Now the remark for the ntfs partition will be gone.Make sure that no partitions
from the /dev/sda disk would be mounted.

Right-click on the dev/sda6 and click on Resize/Move option to shrink the space and get out of 50 GB space from that partition.

An unallocated space of 50 GB was created just below to the /dev/sda6 partition.Now you have to move the unallocated space to just below to the /dev/sda7 partition so that the size of /dev/sda7 partition will be increased.

Right-click on the /dev/sda6 partition and then select Resize/Move option.Now drag the slider to the extreme right so that the unallocated space move above to the sda6 Database partition.

Next right-click on the /dev/sda5,and follow above step to move the unallocated space just above to the /dev/sda5 partition.Same operation would be done on the linux-swap partition.

Now the unallocated space was just above to the linux-swap and just below to the dev/sda7 root partition.

Now right-click on the dev/sda7 partition to increase it's space.That's all.I hope it would be helpful.