Resizing ext4 partition

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 27 05:21:50 UTC 2010


Wade Smart wrote:
> Just a while ago my computer just froze up.
> My /home folder was 100% full. Crap!
> I booted using live cd and started gparted. I am unable to resize my
> home partition.
> I have a lot of free space but, it only shows like a few megabytes for
> the /home partition to grow.
> 
> Wade
> 
	Hi Wade you need to try Gparted again and select the extended 
partition. Now with Gparted choose to make the extended 
partition much larger to include all the unused space on your 
hard drive.

	Then go back to your Ubuntu partition and choose to enlarge 
it to say 20 GB. This is now possible.

73 Karl


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