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On Thu, 20 Nov 2014, NW wrote:
On my laptop I had two main partitions, one with Xubuntu and one with Mint. I have decided to get rid of Mint, so I have deleted the partition using Gparted live.. I had to run boot repair but now I can boot into the Xubuntu partition. Now, when I check using gparted, I have the Xubuntu partition, sda1, on the left and then a partition marked 'unallocated' next to it. I want to extend the Xubuntu partition to include the unallocated part. When I try to resize it I can make it smaller but I cannot make it larger. It shows no space available after it. I must be missing something. Can anyone point me in the right direction please?
In generic terms, using a partition management tool (cfdisk, fdisk, gdisk), you need to delete the unused partition, then delete the active partition, then re-create the active partition to have *exactly* the same starting block as it had before plus the space after it that was occupied by the unused partition.
Then you can resize it. (resize2fs)If there's a gap in between the 2 then you need to delete that gap and incorporate it.
If the partitions are the other way round then it's harder because I think resize only goes the one way. (ie. you can add blocks to the end of a partition but not to the start).
I think running gparted might help, but you might have to boot the laptop off a recovery CD with gparted installed and run it from there.
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