secondmor.blogg.se - Extend partition windows 8

To do this, I did the following while running Ubuntu: A CD/DVD would also work, but my laptop doesn’t have a CD drive. Since you can’t resize the Ubuntu partition while it is running ( not true apparently, although I didn’t want to risk it), it was necessary to create a bootable USB stick to boot GParted and perform the resize from there. GParted is “a free partition manager that enables you to resize, copy, and move partitions without data loss.” After googling around a bit, this seemed like the best option for resizing the Ubuntu partition.

Step One: Create a bootable USB stick containing GParted I used a combination of command line and GUI utilities.

Expand the Ubuntu partition using GParted.

Create a bootable USB stick containing GParted, a partitioning utility.

On a high level, this process consisted of three steps: The obvious solution was to shrink the Windows partition and expand the Ubuntu partition. However, I’ve been using Ubuntu as my primary OS since then, and I’d been starting to want more disk space. At the time, I wasn’t sure if I would stick with Ubuntu, so I was conservative with how much disk space I allocated to the Ubuntu partition. About a year and a half ago, I installed Ubuntu on my laptop so I could dual boot with the original Windows 8 installation.