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How to increase hard disk space to ubuntu system

Asked by Karthik. B

I'm using 160GB hard disk with Vista and ubuntu dual boot. I installed via Wubi, with 30GB space for ubuntu.Now I want to add extra space to ubuntu, how can I do it?

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

gparted is able to resize your windows partition down and can resize your ubuntu partition up. You can't resize a partition that is currently in use, so you will probably need to boot from another partition or disk to run gparted to do the resizing. gparted is on the live ubuntu CD so you could boot to that to do the resizing.

It is sensible to take a backup before you use gparted, but generally it's pretty safe.

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Karthik. B (karthik-bhuvana) said : 		#2

You told gparted is available on live ubuntu CD. But i don't have ubuntu live CD. I've alternate installer CD. How can i resize partitions through alternate installer CD?
Also, how can i see the disk usage statistics, i mean about free space available and used space in ubuntu. Is there any utility like that?

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Best Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#3

No, I don't think you can do it with the alternate CD.

The following command can tell you how much free space there is in all mounted filesystems.

df -h

Also the baobab package can tell you where your space is being used. It can be installed with Synaptic package manager. Baobab is available in Breezy (5.10) and Dapper (6.06) , but is part of the gnome-utils package in Edgy (6.10).

You can download a gparted live cd from the following site which can also be used to resize partitions:-

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

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Karthik. B (karthik-bhuvana) said : 		#4

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